September 01, 2025

VANISHING POINT: CITY DAILY PHOTO, Baltimore, MD

Today, we are taking part in a new blog, CITY DAILY PHOTO, 
and also one we have enjoyed for some time now, IMAGE-IN-ING.
  
Direct links to both of these can be found under the image below and on our sidebar.  
They afford bloggers, we pet bloggers, an opportunity ~ to spread our paws, so to speak ~ 
and show a little different side of our photography, choosing photos from our home towns, our other lives.  
You may want to visit these blog hops, take part from time to time, share a new adventure.


Driving on our way to somewhere, a friend paused long enough for me to snap a picture of The Emerson Tower, now best known as the Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower, in downtown Baltimore, on the West side.  We're featuring it here, for our first time to take part in the City Daily Photo blog hop, the September photo theme being "vanishing point".
Built between 1907-1911, until 1923 the tower held claim to being the tallest building in Baltimore, vanishing up toward the cloud filled sky, and even today stands tall in our city.  The Seth Thomas clock at its top has four faces looking East, West, North and South.
The tower was abandoned in 2002 until early 2007 when philanthropists began fundraising and worked to transform it into the Arts Tower it is today.  In 1973, the tower was added to the National Register of Historic Places.







24 comments:

  1. how great the it is still there... and how hard people worked in old times to build such things...

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  2. I'm sure I've seen it but honestly, I can't remember it. Our family left Baltimore when I was 7.

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  3. Wow, that tower looks enormous! Good work keeping it preserved!

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  4. That is a beautiful tower. I am glad it was renovated as it would have been such a pity to leave it to deteriorate.

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  5. Mom was so busy driving and trying to stay on the right road, we didn't see much of Baltimore when we passed through. What a beautiful piece of architecture!

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  6. Photography is so much fun, especially when you capture something terrific.

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  7. Ann I'm so happy to see that beautiful tower is listed as historic.
    Hugs cecilia

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  8. Awesome architecture photo ~ June is better though ~ hugs,

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  9. I am also happy that the tower was restored, what a wonderful part of Baltimore history!

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  10. Nice Shot and a beautiful building! Barb

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  11. That is a beautiful tower. Nice header June! Tigris and Styx

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  12. PS JUNE I really like your September header
    Hugs Cecilia

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  13. That's a cool looking building! We love the clock on it and the top looks like part of a castle.

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  14. What a beautiful tower and great pictured as well😸Love the header of you, sweet June😻Double Pawkisses for a Happy Day to you and your mommy too🐾😽💞

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  15. Hello,
    The building is very familiar, I worked in Baltimore for 40 plus years. Happy September, Enjoy your day and the week ahead.

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  16. That is such a beautiful tower. I love seeing around Baltimore. I use to give seminars in Baltimore back in the day, it was one of my favorite places to go.

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  17. It’s a beautiful building, it’s nice to see such places restored and made useful again.

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  18. That is an impressive landmark! Good thing to be saved, renewed and made historical so no one can ruin it.

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  19. I love old buildings - full of character, while so many building I see going up today look like Soviet era monstrosities. Thank you for sharing at https://image-in-ing.blogspot.com/2025/09/welcome-to-badlands.html

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