Merchants National Bank Building (1895) in Baltimore | |
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| Location | 301 Water St., Baltimore, Maryland |
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| Coordinates | 39°17′19″N 76°36′38″W / 39.28861°N 76.61056°W |
| Architect | Baldwin & Pennington |
| Architectural style | Renaissance Revival |
| Part of | Business and Government Historic District (ID87002065[1]) |
| Added to NRHP | 1987 |
The Merchants' National Bank Building (1895), Baltimore was a historic bank building at 301 Water Street, at the corner of South Street, in Baltimore, Maryland. It was a 7-story, Renaissance Revival style building designed by the Baltimore-based architectural firm of Baldwin & Pennington, and constructed in 1893-1895. Johns Hopkins, a Baltimore businessman, abolitionist, and philanthropist, had been president of the bank from 1853 until his death in 1873.[2][3]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "Seventy Years a Bank: Merchants' National Rechartered For Two Decades More Came Under Jackson's Veto". The Baltimore Sun. June 10, 1905.
- ^ "Death of Johns Hopkins His Last illness Life and Character His Career as a Merchant and Banker His Benevolent Enterprises Monuments of Learning and Charity, &c". The Baltimore Sun. December 25, 1873. Retrieved February 12, 2014.