Cecil Apartments is a historic
apartment
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building in
Baltimore
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,
Maryland
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,
United States
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. It is a seven-story building constructed of multiple shades of light-colored brick, accented with limestone and cast
terra cotta
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In applied art, craft, construction, and architecture, terracotta ...
ornament in the
Beaux-Arts style
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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
Edward Hughes Glidden
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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
National Register of Historic Places
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in 2000.
References
External links
*, including photo from 1999, at Maryland Historical Trust
Bolton Hill, Baltimore
Madison Park, Baltimore
Buildings and structures in Baltimore
Residential buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Baltimore
Residential buildings completed in 1902
Beaux-Arts architecture in Maryland
Apartment buildings in Baltimore
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