Stewart's Department Store

	Stewart's Department Store Building
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Stewart's Department Store, March 2012
Location	226-232 W. Lexington St., Baltimore, Maryland
Coordinates	39°17′31″N 76°37′10″W / 39.29194°N 76.61944°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1899
Architect	Cassell, Charles E.
Architectural style	Renaissance
NRHP reference No.	99001078
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

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Betty Bird and Heather Ewing (November 1998). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Stewart's Department Store" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.

External links

Stewart's Department Store, Baltimore City, including photo from 1998, at Maryland Historical Trust

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[mht_ihp-2] Betty Bird and Heather Ewing (November 1998). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Stewart's Department Store" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.

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