Montgomery Ward Warehouse and Retail Store

Montgomery Ward Warehouse and Retail Store
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Montgomery Ward Warehouse and Retail Store, September 2012
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Location	1000 S. Monroe St., Baltimore, Maryland
Coordinates	39°16′34″N 76°38′41″W / 39.27611°N 76.64472°W / 39.27611; -76.64472
Area	16.2 acres (6.6 ha)
Built	1925
Built by	Wells Bros. Construction Co.
Architect	McCaully, W.H.
Architectural style	Early Commercial, Art Deco
NRHP reference No.	00001085[1]
Added to NRHP	September 14, 2000

Montgomery Ward Warehouse and Retail Store is a historic warehouse and retail building in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is an eight-story (plus penthouse) concrete structure and is roughly shaped like a squared-off number "4". The front features a penthouse tower at the main entrance bay with a balcony and capped by a flagpole. The building houses over 1,200,000 square feet (110,000 m²) of floor space flooded by light from approximately 1,000 large multi-paned, steel frame windows. It was built about 1925 as a mail order and retail warehouse for Montgomery Ward on an 11 acres (4.5 ha) site adjacent to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tracks.^[2] The complex was one of nine large warehouses built by the company in the United States.^[3]

From 2001 to 2002, the vacant warehouse was restored as an office building by Himmelrich Associates, Inc. for Maryland Department of the Environment, M&T Bank and other tenants.

Montgomery Ward Warehouse and Retail Store was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.^[1]