Standard Oil Building, also known as the Stanbalt Building, is a historic

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located at

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. It is a 15-story Beaux Arts skyscraper designed by Clyde N. Friz (1867-1942), one of Baltimore's best-known Beaux Arts designers, and built in 1922. The steel-frame U-shaped office building is clad in limestone. It was built by the Standard Oil Company at a time when that business was once one of the nation's principal corporations, the dominant supplier of gasoline and fuels. Standard Oil Building was listed on the

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in 2000. In its later years as an office building, the building primarily housed offices for the City of Baltimore. Following an extensive, $25 million renovation, the building reopened as residential apartments in 2002 by the

Southern Management Corporation Southern Management Companies is a privately owned property management company in the Mid-Atlantic United States. The company owns more than 25,000 apartment units across 76 properties, three hotels, and 1 million square feet in commercial spac ...

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