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Highrise #20

Collection

Highrises

Description

**Baltimore Trust Building** **Art by:** Chris Hytha **Story by:** Mark Houser The exuberant exterior of Baltimore’s only Art Deco skyscraper features cresting ocean waves and crabs to go with its gargoyles. Its interior is equally breathtaking, with multicolored marble columns supporting the painted beamed ceiling and four large murals depicting the city in each century of its existence. Alas, the lovely hand-wrought iron gates by master blacksmith Samuel Yellin now bar the public from the former banking hall, which has been repurposed as a gym. Its spectacular mosaic floor by the acclaimed muralist Hildreth Meière — creator of Radio City Music Hall’s signature sculptures — is covered with mats to protect it. Once the state’s biggest financial institution, Baltimore Trust did not survive the 1933 banking panic. Now a residential highrise, the building has changed hands and names repeatedly. Its most colorful owner, West Virginia millionaire and political gadfly Raymond J. Funkhouser, renamed it the O’Sullivan building in 1942 after a company he owned that made rubber shoe heels. He also kicked an upscale barbershop out of the top floor so he could put his penthouse there.

Traits

Style

Art Deco

Style

Gothic

City

Baltimore

Region

Northeast

Decade

1920s

Height

500' - 599'

Attributes

Sloped Roof

Attributes

Figures

Token

Contract: 0x516D...b5d2
Token ID: 19

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