Joseph Evans Sperry, architect Baltimore, 1900 Marble Gift of Calvin Buikema, 1999

Northeast corner of St. Paul and Lexington Streets, Baltimore

This massive newel post formed part of a grand interior stairway in the Maryland Telephone Company building. A rival phone company, the Chesapeake and Potomac, acquired the former company and occupied the building beginning in 1907. It now houses the Office of the Public Defender. Renovations to the building interior eliminated the stairway as well as other architectural detail.