Montgomery Ward Warehouse and Retail Store

{{Short description|Historic place in Maryland, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Montgomery Ward Warehouse and Retail Store

| nrhp_type =

| image = Montgomery Ward Warehouse and Retail Store.jpg

| caption = Montgomery Ward Warehouse and Retail Store, September 2012

| location = 1000 S. Monroe St., Baltimore, Maryland

| coordinates = {{coord|39|16|34|N|76|38|41|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = United States Baltimore#Maryland#USA

| built = 1925

| architect = McCaully, W.H.

| builder = Wells Bros. Construction Co.

| architecture = Early Commercial, Art Deco

| added = September 14, 2000

| area = {{convert|16.2|acre}}

| refnum = 00001085{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

}}

Montgomery Ward Warehouse and Retail Store is a historic warehouse and retail building in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is an eight-story (plus penthouse) concrete structure and is roughly shaped like a squared-off number "4". The front features a penthouse tower at the main entrance bay with a balcony and capped by a flagpole. The building houses over {{convert|1200000|sqft|m2}} of floor space flooded by light from approximately 1,000 large multi-paned, steel frame windows. It was built about 1925 as a mail order and retail warehouse for Montgomery Ward on an {{convert|11|acre|ha}} site adjacent to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tracks.{{cite web |title=Montgomery Ward Warehouse |website=An Engineer's Guide to Baltimore |url=https://www.ce.jhu.edu/baltimorestructures/Index.php?location=Montgomery%20Ward%20Warehouse |access-date=2021-01-23 |publisher=Center for Educational Resources, Johns Hopkins University |location=Baltimore, MD}} The complex was one of nine large warehouses built by the company in the United States.{{cite web |url=https://mht.maryland.gov/secure/medusa/PDF/NR_PDFs/NR-1249.pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Montgomery Ward Warehouse and Retail Store |date=February 2000 |accessdate=2016-04-01 |author=Fred B. Shoken |publisher=Maryland Historical Trust}}

From 2001 to 2002, the vacant warehouse was restored as an office building by Himmelrich Associates, Inc. for Maryland Department of the Environment, M&T Bank and other tenants.

Montgomery Ward Warehouse and Retail Store was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.