American Brewery (Baltimore, Maryland)

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The American Brewery is a historic former brewery located at 1701 North Gay Street in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.[1] Formerly abandoned and left to decay, has been recently renovated and beautified. It is currently the headquarters of Humanim Inc.

The land on which this building stands was until the Civil War a portion of “Greenwood,” the country seat of Philip Rogers and his family. In 1864 a Bavarian immigrant, John F. Weissner (1831-1897), leased it from the Rogers heirs and built a small brewery and his family home there. In 1886, with German beer drinkers flooding into Baltimore in general, and this part of it in particular, Weissner commissioned builder Charles Stoll to construct the five-story brick brewhouse which still looms over Gay Street today. Its tower served as a 10,000-bushel grain elevator, with the actual brewing done on the third, fourth, and fifth floors of the brewhouse and loading docks taking up the first and second stories. Beer, originally sold only by the keg, began to be bottled at the plant in the 1890s, and for this the founder’s successor John F. Weissner, Jr. (1859-1906) added a separate bottling plant east of the brewhouse, as well as extensive stabling for the enormous number of draft horses the Weissners employed to deliver their products around the city.

1701 North Gay Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21213