Baltimore clock tower

Clock tower at Perring Plaza, Baltimore, MD

The Bromo Seltzer Tower has been a Baltimore landmark since its construction in 1911 and was the tallest building in Baltimore at the time. This historic structure, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was modeled after the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. The tower was designed by Joseph Evans Sperry and built by Captain Isaac Emerson, the inventor of the headache remedy Bromo Seltzer. The most interesting feature is the still-functioning tower clock, the face of which…

BALTIMORE, Maryland, USA- Mount Royal Station Baltimore & Ohio RR. - Romanesque, architecture style

Maryland Casualty Company Clock Tower, that once stood in the 200 block of East Baltimore Street. It was demolished by 1987.

The building's most distinctive feature are the four clock faces adorning the tower, on the North, South, East and West sides. The clock faces are adorned with the letters B-R-O-M-O S-E-L-T-Z-E-R, while the Roman numeral numbers are less prominent. From street-level to rooftop, the tower stands 288.7 feet high, and was originally adorned with a 51 foot tall Bromo-Seltzer bottle, glowing blue and rotating. Due to structural concerns however, the bottle was removed in 1936

Baltimore Clock Tower

• aka Emerson Tower, Bromo-Seltzer Tower, Bromo-Seltzer Arts Tower • 289' 15-story tower designed by Joseph Evans Sperry (1854-1930), patterned after Palazzo Vecchio, Venice • built for Spanish-American War veteran, Capt. Isaac Emerson (1859-1931), inventor of Bromo-Seltzer headache remedy named after active Javanese volcano, Mt. Bromo • Isaac Emerson bio • Baltimore's tallest building until 1923 • 4-dial gravity clock bigger than Big Ben • hours represented by letters…

Bromo Seltzer Tower, located in downtown Baltimore. Another part of Baltimore's interesting history!

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Shooting at the Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower in Baltimore, MD has been on my photography-bucket-list for years! I’m super grateful that my little model wanted to play Princess for the day and we made some incredible art 16 stories high in the oldest gravity-driven clock! Gown: https://bit.ly/2OFGUCh Tiara: https://amzn.to/2OJ2UMF Location: Bromo Seltzer Tower Baltimore, MD … Continue reading "clock tower photo shoot in Baltimore, MD | Bromo Seltzer Tower photo shoot"