Westwood mansion gay street baltimore

The rosette motif is repeated in the cornices of the windows with a corbel in the center. The last and northernmost section was built in and is also brick. The triangular stone section has the date on it. The four rectangular windows of the second floor are arranged symmetrically over the first floor divisions.

American Brewery Inventory No. Description: The American Brewery brew house is a unique example of 19th century industrial architecture. The American Brewery Building at North Gay Street might be the most “Baltimore” of all buildings in the city.

The door frame and cornice are brownstone with rosette decorations. Sincethe J.F. Weisner and Sons brewery building (later known as the American Brewery) stood as a hulking shell lording over a distressed neighborhood. The middle section is the same as the first described except that it is brick with stone archivolts.

In style, it can best be described as "middle-European Chalet. It is in the style of High Victorian architecture, as so much of our city was built, and is just plain quirky.

2701 Westwood Ave Baltimore

At present, the windows are boarded up and the interior is gutted. Each of the smaller sections includes one semi-arched first floor window and one arched second floor window. Return to Home Page. Route 40) and becomes Ensor. Inventory No. Location: N.

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The southernmost of these was built in as a residence for the brewery owners. Category: Building. The interior of the structure is largely unaltered although some sections have been modernized and others are no longer in use. It is a three-story brick building with brownstone trim.

The office building next door is two stories high and has three sections. Brownstone archivolts frame the first floor door and window. The central tower is seven stories and the two on either side are six. There are two buildings across the street from the brew house that were built during the same period and the three together show how a late 19th century brewery would have appeared.

Above the roof line, there is a triangular section of stone with the date inscribed on it. The building itself has a wooden cornice now painted green. Its height and organization of interior spaces were predetermined by the requirements of brewing but the exterior details are expressions of the age and of the people who lived and worked in the area.

National Register Properties in MarylandMaryland's National Register Properties. Zillow has 43 photos of this $, 3 beds, 3 baths, -- sqft townhouse home located at Westwood Ave, Baltimore, MD built in MLS #MDBA Gay Street is a street in Baltimore, Maryland that gets its name from Nicholas Ruxton Gay, who surveyed the area in It begins at the intersection of East Pratt Street near the Baltimore World Trade Center (at the Inner Harbor) and proceeds north and east through Baltimore until it crosses Orleans Street (U.S.

Its. The buildings and sites that a community preserves help to define the physical identity and character for which a community is known.