Cecil Apartments is a historic

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building in

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. It is a seven-story building constructed of multiple shades of light-colored brick, accented with limestone and cast

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ornament in the

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. The structure takes the form of a "T". Constructed in 1902, it was one of the first important apartment buildings in Baltimore, built at the edge of the city's most elite downtown neighborhood, Bolton Hill. It was designed by Baltimore architect

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, and it marked the evolution of elite living that had come to characterize the Bolton Hill neighborhood. Despite the apartments' location often being referred to as Bolton Hill, it is actually within the boundaries of the adjacent Madison Park neighborhood. Cecil Apartments was listed on the

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in 2000.

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