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Silo Point

Baltimore, Italy

Silo Point

Silo Point, formerly known as the Baltimore and Ohio Locust Point Grain Terminal Elevator, is a residential complex converted from a high-rise grain elevator on the edge of the Locust Point neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland. When the original grain elevator was completed in 1923, it was the larges

t and fastest in the world, rising to 308 feet (94 meters). Built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1923–1924, with a capacity of 3.8 million bushels (134 thousand m3). In 2009 it was converted from a grain elevator to a condominium 24 story tower with 228 condominium units by Turner Development Group and architect Parameter, Inc. The grain elevator was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

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