File:Hansa Haus c. 1914.jpg

English: Identifier: distinguishedmen00balt

Title: Distinguished men of Baltimore and of Maryland Year: 1914 (1910s) Authors: Subjects: Baltimore (Md.) -- Biography Maryland -- Biography Publisher: [Baltimore] Baltimore American Contributing Library: New York Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book

Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image: n Southern ])ine lumber anil forest ])roducts, since1889 have operated with headijuarters at Baltimore. Their busi-ness is confined almost exclusiveh to the woods of the South, the chiefcommercial items being long-leaf yellow pine fiom Georgia and Florida,and the kiln-dried ]>ine of Xortli Carolina. This ])roduct is marketedin the ports and interior ]ioints of the States north and east of Mary-land. The lirnrs main ofHce is in the Keyser Building, Baltimore, withbranches in New York, ]\Iilford, \a., and Fayetteville, N. C. In addition to the bvisiness of the firm at Baltimore, Mr. LewisDill is also identified with the general industry aiul its collateral inter-ests through the timber and sawmill o]ierations of the Dill, CramerTruitt Company at Suffolk, \a., of which is ])resident; as former presi-dent of the Baltimore Lumber Exchange, president Xational Associa-tion of AVholesale Lumbermen of United States and Canada, and aschairman of the Ijumber Fire Underwriters at New York, 126

Text Appearing After Image: Tile HANSA HAUS, office o( the North Oerm.in Llovil Steamship Company, A. Scliiiiiiailier & Company, Gen-eral AKents. r.altimore: location. N, E. Corner of Charles and German streets; cnuipleteil December 10. 1912;ariliitects, Iarker, Thomas & Kice; name derived from the Hanseatic League or (Jerman Ilansa, a medieval(. iifecleration of the so-called Hanse Towns of Northern Enrope. formed for the pn.teiiion of commerce andIi-ade; motive of building taken from the ■■Zwickeii. an ancient Courthouse in Halbersladl, a city of NorthernCermaiiv; constructed in the style of the German Renaissance, the half-timbered architecture being a dis-tinctivefeature; chief decorations, the Ioat-of-anns of the members of the Hanseatic LeaKue painted iu colorsunder each of the second-storv windows, and the old Viking ,shlp in full sail f tile in theCharles-slreet gat>le. Besides the North Geriiian Lhiyd. the Imperial German Consulate and the RoyalSwedisli Vir-e-Cousu];i

Note About Images

Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.