Standard_Oil_Building_(Baltimore,_Maryland)

Standard Oil Building (Baltimore, Maryland)

Standard Oil Building (Baltimore, Maryland)

United States historic place

Standard Oil Building, also known as the Stanbalt Building, is a historic office building located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a 15-story Beaux Arts skyscraper designed by Clyde N. Friz (1867-1942), one of Baltimore's best-known Beaux Arts designers, and built in 1922. The steel-frame U-shaped office building is clad in limestone. It was built by the Standard Oil Company at a time when that business was once one of the nation's principal corporations, the dominant supplier of gasoline and fuels.[2]

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Standard Oil Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.[1] In its later years as an office building, the building primarily housed offices for the City of Baltimore. Following an extensive, $25 million renovation, the building reopened as residential apartments in 2002 by the Southern Management Corporation.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. [2]
    George E. Thomas (May 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Standard Oil Building" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
  3. [3]
    "Old Standard Oil Building gets apartment makeover". Baltimore Sun. 2002-10-17.

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