photography: Rachel H. Sangree

warehouse; reinforced concrete, green roof

1925

1800 Washington Boulevard (Rt. 1)

Baltimore, MD [Standalone Map]

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The building is now occupied by the Maryland State Department of the Environment, and it recently underwent the installation of a 30,000 square foot extensive green roof... [more]

M.E Hayward and F.R. Shivers, Jr., the Architecture of Baltimore: An Illustrated History, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore (2004), p. 263. [more]

Built on 11 acres adjacent to the B&O Railroad lines and I-95, and containing 700,000 square feet of storage space, the Montgomery Ward mail-order warehouse was large enough to supply the entire eastern United States. 

The building is now occupied by the Maryland State Department of the Environment, and it recently underwent the installation of a 30,000 square foot extensive green roof over the former train shed.  The building also contains numerous other "green building" technologies.

M.E Hayward and F.R. Shivers, Jr., the Architecture of Baltimore: An Illustrated History, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore (2004), p. 263.

Maryland Department of the Environment, What makes MDE's new offices so special?  Retrieved April 14, 2005 from:  http://www.mde.state.md.us/AboutMDE/mp_special.ASP