photography: Rachel H. Sangree

high-rise office building, steel framed with granite, steel trusses in roof

20 South Charles Street

Baltimore, MD  [Standalone Map]

The Sun Life Building was built as part of the Charles Center plan of the 1960s.

A very deep transfer girder above the lobby allows for the use of only four main steel columns.  The columns are embedded in bedrock. 

J. Dorsey and J.D. Dilts, A Guide to Baltimore Architecture (Third Edition), Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, MD (1997), p. 75. [more]

J. Dorsey and J.D. Dilts, A Guide to Baltimore Architecture (Third Edition), Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, MD (1997), p. 75.

M.E Hayward and F.R. Shivers, Jr., the Architecture of Baltimore: An Illustrated History, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore (2004), p. 171.