FORMER AFRO-AMERICAN PLANT INCLUDED IN HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY.

Here are some interesting images of the former Afro-American publishing plant at 628 N. Eutaw Street in Baltimore. The are part of a larger series of photographs included in the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), currently housed at the Library of Congress.

HABS is a vast archive which documents notable achievements in architecture, engineering and landscape design in the United States, ranging from the 17th through the 20th centuries. Its been going since the early 1930s - part of a set of cooperative agreements between the National Parks Service, the Library of Congress, and the private sector - and to date has produced more than half-a-million drawings, photographs, and written histories.

Back to the Afro-American building: there is some conflicting data on exactly when the paper vacated the property, but it seems to have occured somewhere between 1990 and 1993. The date at which these images were taken is also unclear, although I would guess it was pretty soon after the newspaper left.

From looking on Google Maps it appears that the main building no longer exists, leaving images such among the last memories of a Black publishing plant that was once once of the largest in the nation.

626-628 N. Eutaw Street Exterior, date unknown. Library of Congress

626-628 N. Eutaw Street Interior, date unknown. Library of Congress

626-628 N. Eutaw Street Interior, date unknown. Library of Congress

626-628 N. Eustaw Street Interior, date unknown. Library of Congress