Stewart's Department Store

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Stewart's Department Store Building
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Stewart's Department Store, March 2012
Stewart's Department Store is located in Baltimore
Stewart's Department Store
Location 226-232 W. Lexington St., Baltimore, Maryland
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Area less than one acre
Built 1899 (1899)
Architect Cassell, Charles E.
Architectural style Renaissance
NRHP Reference # 99001078[1]
Added to NRHP September 3, 1999

Stewart's Department Store, also known as the Posner Building, is a historic department store building located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Catholic Relief Services is currently headquartered there.

Architecture

The Stewart's Department Store structure was designed in 1899 by Charles E. Cassell and is a six story brick and terra cotta steel-framed building detailed in a highly ornate Italian Renaissance Revival style. It features an exuberant ornamental detail includes fluted Ionic and Corinthian columns, lion heads, caryatids, wreaths, garlands, cartouches, and an elaborate bracketed cornice.

History

This building served as the flagship store for Stewart’s Baltimore operations and anchored Baltimore’s premier downtown retail location at Lexington and Howard Streets.[2]

Stewart's Department Store Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.[1]

References

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