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The Business and Government Historic District is a historic district in downtown Baltimore, Maryland, United States, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. The district comprises the center of Baltimore's municipal government and the eastern portion of Baltimore's commercial central business district and north of the old traditional financial district. The major feature of the district is the War Memorial Plaza with the Baltimore City Hall (designed by George A. Frederick) to the west and the War Memorial Building, (Laurence Hall Fowler - architect) to the east. To the south of the Plaza is the Charles J. Benton Municipal Office Building constructed in the late 1970s and the adjacent newer relocated offices of the Baltimore City Fire Department (in the older former Municipal Employees Credit Union (M.E.C.U.) Building). To the north, is the historic Zion Lutheran Church (original church of 1806 facing North Gay Street, extending west to Holliday with 1913 annex of parish house, library and bell tower) and the former 1922 Fire Department office structure. Formerly from the 1920s to the early 1980s, to the east, at the rear of the War Memorial Building stood the red brick and stone-trimmed central headquarters of the Baltimore City Police Department, which was razed for the southern extension of the Jones Falls Expressway (Interstate 83 to connect with the President Street boulevard. The city police offices were moved earlier in 1967 to a new distinctive copper-reflective windowed headquarters on the south side of East Fayette Street across from the War Memorial Building and its former site). To the north of the War Memorial and northeast of the plaza is the 1990s era offices of the city's Legal Aid Bureau of Maryland, with an adjacent rear parking garage.
The Wells Fargo Tower, formerly known as the First Union Signet Tower, Wachovia Tower, and Union Trust Building, is a commercial high-rise in Baltimore, Maryland. The building rises 24 floors above street level and is in height; it is tied with Charles Center South as the 17th-tallest building in the city. The structure was completed in 1985. The Wells Fargo Tower was developed by the Dallas-based Trammell Crow Company, and is currently owned by the Wells Fargo and Company. The structure is an example of modern architecture, and has a glass, steel and concrete façade. The Wachovia Tower rises from the site formerly occupied by the Calvert Building and 7-9 Saint Paul Street. The building, formerly housing offices for Wachovia, is now home to the regional office of Wells Fargo and Company.See also List of tallest buildings in Baltimore
One Charles Center is a historic office building located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a 23-story aluminum and glass International Style skyscraper designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and constructed in 1962. It was the first modernistic office tower in Baltimore and the keynote of the city’s nationally recognized downtown urban renewal movement and Charles Center. The base consists of a concrete-faced podium topped by a paved plaza, with the "T"-shaped office tower atop. The tower is detailed in Mies's signature bronze metal trim and gray glass.The tower was the subject of a design competition that included a submission by Marcel Breuer. The tower was completed in 13 months at a cost of $10,350,000. One Charles Center was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.External linksOne Charles Center, Baltimore City, including photo from 1999, at Maryland Historical TrustOne Charles Center website
The Chamber of Commerce Building is a historic office building located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a Renaissance Revival-style red brick building five floors in height, eleven bays long and three bays wide, and built 1904-05. It was built during the rebuilding of the financial area in Baltimore following the Great Fire of 1904 and features many terra cotta decorative elements. The rebuilt structure was designed by Baltimore architect Charles E. Cassell. The original pre-fire building was designed by John Rudolph Niernsee in 1880 and was used by the Corn and Flour Exchange, which maintained a trading floor on the fifth level.Chamber of Commerce Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.