Gunther Brewing Company

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Gunther Brewing Company
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South wall of the old Gunther Brewery in Canton, southeast Baltimore, November 2011
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Location1200,1211,1301 South Conkling Street, 3601,3701 O'Donnell Street, east side South Conkling Street, Rear east side of South Conkling Street, Canton, Baltimore, Maryland
Coordinates 39°16′46.2″N76°34′0.14″W / 39.279500°N 76.5667056°W / 39.279500; -76.5667056
Built1900
Architectural styleRomanesque, Moderne, et al.
NRHP reference No. 02001607 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 26, 2002

Gunther Brewing Company is a historic brewery industrial building complex, located in the Canton neighborhood of southeast Baltimore, Maryland, (United States). The site comprises 15 masonry buildings. The main structure is a five-story brick "L"-shaped Romanesque Revival-style brew house with a two-story brick ice plant built about 1910 and one- and two-story boiler room. Additional brew houses built in 1936 and 1950 are also on the property. The later Tulkoff factory and warehouse was built about 1964. It was home to the George Gunther, Jr. Brewing Company, founded in 1900. By 1959, it was the second largest brewery in Baltimore, one of the major centers of brewing in America, when it produced 800,000 barrels per year and employed approximately 600 people. Hamm's Brewing Company bought the Gunther Brewing Company in 1960, and later became part of Miller Brewing Company. The brand was acquired just three years later by the F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company in 1963, the plant in Canton was closed in 1978. The Tulkoff company briefly used the factory for their sauce products at the conclusion of all brewing operations.

After that, large portions of the rear walls of some buildings were demolished to facilitate salvage. [2] The former brewery has been redeveloped into a modern, mixed-use building called The Gunther, much like other Canton buildings.

Gunther Brewing Company was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, which is maintained by the National Park Service of the United States Department of the Interior. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. Betty Bird (January 2002). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Gunther Brewing Company" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-04-01.