Lost to "Progress".....
After the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904, there was a building boom in Baltimore's Central Business District. Top architects in America were engaged to rebuild this section of the city, which included a number of banks which were destroyed. Sadly, "progress" and not fire has brought a number of these buildings to their end, replaced by parking lots and parking garages in many cases. Here are a few of those structures, lost to "progress," memorialized in photographs, drawings and building plans... Colonial Trust located on West Saratoga Street Designed by Ellicott & Emmart Built 1907 by Norcross Brothers Company of Indiana Limestone with Troy White Granite Base Colonial Trust Plan German Bank of Baltimore located at the corner Baltimore and Holliday streets Designed by Baldwin & Pennington Built 1905-1906 by George Bunnecke & Company German Bank of Baltimore Plan International Trust 23-27 East Baltimore Street Designed by Parker and Thomas Built 1902 ...