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Baltimore Architecture:
Then and Now

Guardian Trust Building, 14-18 South Calvert Street
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Architects:
ca. 1898  Unknown

From 1883 through 1895 this was the site of Rennert's Restaurant, an establishment founded by famed hotelier Robert Rennert (1837-1898), who sold it in ca.1892. The restaurant building, along with a number of smaller properties extending west of it along the north side of German (now Redwood) Street, came down in the late 1890s for a 10-12 story office building that, at its opening in 1899, was the headquarters of the Guardian Trust and Deposit Company. In 1901, this firm was absorbed into the Maryland Trust Company, which took over the building after renaming it in its own honor.

The structure, which qualified as one of Baltimore's first five "skyscrapers," was gutted by, although not demolished after, the 1904 Baltimore Fire. Maryland Trust refurbished it in 1905, a fact commemorated by cartouches on the current east facade, and stayed in the building until the mid-1980s. After a short, but feverish, existence as the Old Court Savings and Loan Building from 1984 through 1989, it was renamed 16 Calvert South in 1990. Today its ground floor houses a First Mariner Bank office and the upper floors a variety of other enterprises.

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left: Baltimore - Banks and Buildings - Maryland Trust Building, [ca. 1930], photograph by Hughes Co. (MdHS Subject Vertical File Photograph Collection).
right: Photo by John Orrick, 2000.

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Site Contents
1  Masonic Building
2  Enoch Pratt House
3  Graham-Hughes House
4  American Brewery
5  Belvedere Hotel
6  Camden Station
7  Alex Brown Building
8  Williams-Small House
9  Timanus Mill
10  The Pembroke Apartments
11  Merchant's Exchange
12  Old B and O Building
13   Denny & Mitchell Building
14  Guardian Trust Building
15  Old Post Office Building
16  St. Joseph's R.C. Church & Washington Firehouse
17  The Maryland Casualty Building
18  Church of the Redeemer Building
19  The Popplein Family Mansion/Marlborough Apartments
20  Samuel Hoffman, later the Dr. William Osler Mansion
21  Cohen Brothers, later the Dr. Robinson Building
22  Saint Peter's Catholic Church 1770
23  The Baltimore Humane Impartial Society Building
24  Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad Calvert Station
25  The Richmond Market Building Site
26  Dr. Charles Howard's Site and Mount Vernon Place M.E. Church
27  The Stephen Broadbent Mansion "The Glen Mary"