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| Location | 100 N. Charles St.,Baltimore, Maryland |
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| Coordinates | 39°17′27″N76°36′56″W / 39.29083°N 76.61556°W /39.29083; -76.61556 |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1962 (1962) |
| Architect | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
| Architectural style | International Style |
| NRHP reference No. | 00000745[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 13, 2000 |
One Charles Center is a historicoffice building located inBaltimore,Maryland,United States. It is a 23-story aluminium and glassInternational Styleskyscraper designed byLudwig Mies van der Rohe and constructed in 1962. It was the first modernistic office tower in Baltimore and part of the city's downtownurban renewal movement. The base consists of a concrete-faced podium topped by a paved plaza, with the T-shaped office tower atop.[2] The tower includes metal trim and gray glass.[3]
The tower was previously the subject of a design competition. It was completed in 13 months at a cost of $10,350,000.[3] One Charles Center was listed on theNational Register of Historic Places in 2000.[1] It is located next to theFidelity Building, which was completed in the 1890s.[4]
In 1983, theCharles Center stop of theBaltimore Metro Subway opened one block south of the Charles Center complex at the intersection of Baltimore Street andCharles Street. This stop serves as a transportation hub that connects the Metro (extending west to thenorthwest suburbs of the city and east toJohns Hopkins Hospital) to local bus routes and theCharm City Circulator.[5][citation needed]
An anchor tenant,CSX Corporation, sold and vacated the property in the mid-1990s, leaving the tenancy rate low. This prompted an auction for new ownership in whichMetropolitan Life Insurance Company, its mortgage holder, bought One Charles Center in 1993 for $11.5 million.[6] Three years later in 1996, the building was purchased for $6 million byPeter Angelos, a lawyer native to Baltimore and the majority owner of theBaltimore Oriolesmajor league baseball team. After renovations, new tenants moved into the building, including the law offices of Peter Angelos as well as the firm Wright Constable & Skeen.[7]
Former tenants of One Charles Center includeT. Rowe Price, an investment counsel firm and the Center Club of Baltimore.[8]
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