1100 E Baltimore St & 1107 E Fayette St., Baltimore (Independent City), Maryland. County/parish: Baltimore.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 20, 2007. NRIS 07001032.
2 contributing buildings.Also known as:
Hendler Creamery was an industrial complex in Jonestown, Baltimore, Maryland. It is historically significant in three areas: transportation, performing arts, and industry. It was originally a cable-car powerhouse that lasted only six years; after cable cars were replaced by overhead electric street cars around the turn of the century, the building became a theater; and finally a popular ice cream factory that lasted for many decades as a notable part of Baltimore culture and heritage.
The building, deemed structurally sound in 2007, was bought in 2012 by a local developer who promised to renovate it. Instead nothing happened. Indeed they tore the roof off, necessitating the building's complete demolition. The nationally recognized historic building was stripped of valuables and fully demolished in September 2024, to make way for a private park. The building became a case study in demolition by neglect.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/106776590