Montgomery Ward Warehouse and Retail Store is a historic

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and

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building in

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, United States. It is an eight-story (plus penthouse) concrete structure and is roughly shaped like a squared-off number "4". The front features a penthouse tower at the main entrance bay with a balcony and capped by a flagpole. The building houses over of floor space flooded by light from approximately 1,000 large multi-paned, steel frame windows. It was built about 1925 as a mail order and retail warehouse for

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on an site adjacent to the

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tracks. The complex was one of nine large warehouses built by the company in the United States. From 2001 to 2002, the vacant warehouse was restored as an office building by Himmelrich Associates, Inc. for

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and other tenants. Montgomery Ward Warehouse and Retail Store was listed on the

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in 2000.

Gallery

File:Montgomery Ward Warehouse and Retail Store Dec 11.JPG, Montgomery Ward Warehouse and Retail Store, December 2011

References

External links

*, including photo from 2000, at Maryland Historical Trust
Montgomery Park photos
- Baltimore Heritage Montgomery Ward Buildings and structures in Baltimore Warehouses on the National Register of Historic Places Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Baltimore Commercial buildings completed in 1925 Southwest Baltimore {{BaltimoreCityMD-NRHP-stub