page_title: Fidelity and Deposit Company
section_title: Fidelity Building
hierarchical_section_title: Fidelity and Deposit Company / History / Fidelity Building
caption_attribution_description: English: Close-up view of the Fidelity Building, Baltimore
context_page_description: The Fidelity and Deposit Company is a trust company in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1890 by Edwin Warfield, it was also known as the Fidelity and Deposit Trust Company of Maryland and the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Baltimore.
context_section_description: The Fidelity and Deposit Company was headquartered in 1894 in the Fidelity Building, a landmark granite skyscraper at North Charles and West Lexington Streets in Baltimore. Completed in 1894, the building is a 15-story, 67 m (220 ft) skyscraper in the central business district of Baltimore. The building was designed by the prominent local architectural firm of Baldwin & Pennington, composed of leading regional designers Ephraim Francis Baldwin and Josias Pennington - main "house architects" for stations and structures of the dominant Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The building originally contained eight floors with a façade of grey granite, corner cupola tower and mansard roof.
  It survived the February 1904 Great Baltimore Fire, as it stood on the northwestern edge of the famous "burnt district" of the February 1904 fire which destroyed numerous downtown and waterfront buildings and skyscrapers up to across the street. Following the initial reconstruction phase of 1905–1910, when several recently built downtown towers were burned out, but their steel skeletons and concrete foundations/floors and floors survived structurally sound and were rebuilt with new interiors and masonry facades. So F. & D. under the leadership of founder and president Warfield made arrangements between 1912 and 1915, reflecting the continued growth of the company to add seven more floors were added to the top of the building, increasing the number of floors to fifteen, with the upper storied covered with a surface of terra-cotta, matching the style of the original architecture below.
caption: Close-up of the building
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