__NOTOC__ Silo Point, formerly known as the Baltimore and Ohio Locust Point Grain Terminal Elevator, is a residential complex converted from a high-rise

grain elevator A grain elevator is a facility designed to stockpile or store grain. In the grain trade, the term "grain elevator" also describes a tower containing a bucket elevator or a pneumatic conveyor, which scoops up grain from a lower level and deposits ...

on the edge of the Locust Point neighborhood in

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. When the original grain elevator was completed in 1923, it was the largest and fastest in the world. The grain elevator rises to . The silo was built by the

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830. Merchants from Baltimore, which had benefited to some extent from the construction of ...

in 1923–1924, with a capacity of 3.8 million

bushel A bushel (abbreviation: bsh. or bu.) is an imperial and US customary unit of volume based upon an earlier measure of dry capacity. The old bushel is equal to 2 kennings (obsolete), 4 pecks, or 8 dry gallons, and was used mostly for agricult ...

s (134 thousand m³). In 2009 it had been converted from a grain elevator to a

condominium A condominium (or condo for short) is an ownership structure whereby a building is divided into several units that are each separately owned, surrounded by common areas that are jointly owned. The term can be applied to the building or complex ...

tower containing 24 floors and 228 condominiums by Turner Development Group and

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Parameter, Inc. The grain elevator was listed on the

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in 2004.

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File:Silo Point Baltimore MD Dec 11.JPG, Silo Point viewed from East Fort Avenue at Fort McHenry, December 2011

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