"Bromo from Lombard" - Downtown Baltimore
Looking east down Lombard St, another view of the Bromo Seltzer Tower.
The Bromo Seltzer Tower has been a Baltimore landmark since 1911. Captain Issac Emerson, inventor of the headache remedy "Bromo Seltzer" modeled the tower after the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy.
From street-level to rooftop, the tower stands 288.7 feet (88.0 metres) high and was originally adorned with a 51 foot (15.5 metre) tall rotating and lighted blue Bromo-Seltzer bottle. Due to structural concerns however, the bottle was removed in 1936.
The tower was virtually abandoned in 2002, but in early 2007 the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts began renovations to transform the building into 33 artists' studios.