Stieff Silver Company Factory
Encyclopedia
Stieff Silver Company Factory is a historic silver
factory
located at Baltimore
, Maryland
, United States
. It is a two-story nine-bay rectangular brick factory building, designed by Theodore Wells Pietsch
and built in two stages in 1925 and 1929. The exterior features a lighted sign flanking a central clock that rises above a parapet
ed roof. The Stieff Silver Company was the last of the Baltimore silverware manufacturers, operating between 1892 and 1999.
Stieff Silver Company Factory was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 2000.
Silver
Silver is a metallic chemical element with the chemical symbol Ag and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it has the highest electrical conductivity of any element and the highest thermal conductivity of any metal...
factory
Factory
A factory or manufacturing plant is an industrial building where laborers manufacture goods or supervise machines processing one product into another. Most modern factories have large warehouses or warehouse-like facilities that contain heavy equipment used for assembly line production...
located at Baltimore
Baltimore
Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...
, Maryland
Maryland
Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...
, United States
United States
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. It is a two-story nine-bay rectangular brick factory building, designed by Theodore Wells Pietsch
Theodore Wells Pietsch I
Theodore Wells Pietsch was a well-known American architect, best remembered for a large body of work in and around Baltimore, Maryland. Among his most famous buildings is the St. Philip and St...
and built in two stages in 1925 and 1929. The exterior features a lighted sign flanking a central clock that rises above a parapet
Parapet
A parapet is a wall-like barrier at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony or other structure. Where extending above a roof, it may simply be the portion of an exterior wall that continues above the line of the roof surface, or may be a continuation of a vertical feature beneath the roof such as a...
ed roof. The Stieff Silver Company was the last of the Baltimore silverware manufacturers, operating between 1892 and 1999.
Stieff Silver Company Factory was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 2000.
External links
- Stieff Silver Company Factory, Baltimore City, including photo from 1999, at Maryland Historical Trust