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Engineer / Architect: | Peterson and Brickbauer; Emery Roth and Sons |
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Location: |
20 South Charles Street Baltimore, MD |
Year Built: | 1966 |
Structural Form: | high-rise office building, steel framed with granite, steel trusses in roof |
Historical Details: | The Sun Life Building was built as part of the Charles Center plan of the 1960s. |
Technical Details: | A very deep transfer girder above the lobby allows for the use of only four main steel columns. The columns are embedded in bedrock. |
Image Source(s): | Rachel Sangree |
References: |
J. Dorsey and J.D. Dilts, A Guide to Baltimore Architecture (Third Edition), Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, MD (1997), p. 75; M.E Hayward and F.R. Shivers, Jr., the Architecture of Baltimore: An Illustrated History, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore (2004), p. 171. |