Located on the 1100 block in East Baltimore, the nearly 60,000 sq three-story Richardson Romanesque building was constructed as a cable car powerhouse in 1892 by Jackson C. Got. After the replacement of cable car by electric trolleys around 1903, the building briefly became a Yiddish theatre under James Lawrence Kernan. In 1912, the Hendler Ice Cream Company converted the building into the country’s first automated ice cream factory. The creamery closed in the 1970s and there are currently plans to refurbish the remaining structure in to a mixed use building.
Source: Jewish Museum of Maryland, 2001.050.001
A rendering of the conversion of the historic Hendler Creamery building in Jonestown. (Design Collective)
Photogrammetry camera positions
Source: Charles Belfoure (January 2007). “National Register of Historic Places Registration: Hendler Creamery” Maryland Historical Trust.
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