Highfield House Condominium
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Highfield House is a high-rise condominium
Condominium
A condominium, or condo, is the form of housing tenure and other real property where a specified part of a piece of real estate is individually owned while use of and access to common facilities in the piece such as hallways, heating system, elevators, exterior areas is executed under legal rights...

 in the Tuscany-Canterbury
Tuscany-Canterbury, Baltimore
Tuscany-Canterbury is a historic neighborhood in northern Baltimore, Maryland, United States....

 neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland
Maryland
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, United States
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. It was designed by Mies van der Rohe and completed in 1964. It was the second of two buildings designed by Mies in Baltimore. One Charles Center
One Charles Center
One Charles Center is a historic office building located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a 23-story aluminum and glass International Style skyscraper designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and constructed in 1962. It was the first modernistic office tower in Baltimore and the keynote...

 was the first. Highfield House was added to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
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in 2007.

Architecture

Highfield House is a 15 story concrete tower facing east. Set on a platform, the main residential floors are 20 feet above the base. 36 columns frame an enclosed lobby and two equally sized areas of sheltered terrace to the north and south. The windows are made of dark gray tinted glass. Below each window is a brick panel. The use of brick decoration can also be seen in his buildings at IIT.

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