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Continental Trust Building
| Engineer / Architect: | Daniel H. Burnham |
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| Location: |
201 East Baltimore Street Baltimore, MD |
| Year Built: | 1899 |
| Structural Form: | High-rise office building; steel-framed building with a masonry facade |
| Historical Details: | Designed by a well-known Chicago architect in the "Chicago style", this building survived the 1904 Baltimore fire and briefly held the record for the tallest building south of New York. |
| Technical Details: | N/A |
| Image Source(s): | Rachel Sangree |
| References: | J. Dorsey and J.D. Dilts, A Guide to Baltimore Architecture (Third Edition), Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, MD (1997), p. 152; M.E Hayward and F.R. Shivers, Jr., the Architecture of Baltimore: An Illustrated History, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore (2004), p. 224. |