Mount Royal Garage
| Mount Royal Garage | |
|---|---|
| Site Information | |
| Address | 1415 Maryland Ave |
| Geo-reference | 39°18′22″N 76°37′02″W / 39.3062°N 76.61722°W |
| Building Data | |
| Building Type | Commercial |
| Design | |
| Architect | Theodore Wells Pietsch |
| Architecture Firm | Simonson & Pietsch |
| Construction | |
| Completed | 1906 |
In 1911, a few years after architectural firm Simonson & Pietsch dissolved, Theodore Wells Pietsch married Gertrude Carroll Zell. Gerturde’s father had a brother named Arthur Stanley Zell, who had established himself as an automobile dealer and sportsman. He was the president of Zell Motor Car Company, and he and his business partner, Howard Warfield Gill (who died in an airplane crash in 1912) were the first automobile distributors in Maryland, dealing Peerless, Stevens-Duryea, Thomas, Baker, Stanley, and Packard. He had the first structure in Baltimore designed exclusively for automobiles built in 1906. The Mount Royal Garage was designed by Theodore Wells Pietsch during the time of his partnership with Otto G. Simonson. The garage has been demolished, but the structure—of a kind new to Baltimore, indeed of a kind new to the world—was featured in Recent Works of Simonson and Pietsch, a book showcasing the firm’s best designs.
This building was featured in Recent Works of Simonson & Pietsch, published in 1906 (Enoch Pratt Free Library Archives).
