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The Emerson Tower (often called the Bromo-Seltzer Tower or the Bromo Tower) is a 15-story, 88 m (289 ft) clock tower erected in 1907–1911 at 21 South Eutaw Street, at the northeast corner of Eutaw and West Lombard Streets in downtown Baltimore, Maryland.
The Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower, originally The Emerson Tower, has been a Baltimore landmark since its construction in 1911 and was the tallest building in Baltimore at the time. This historic structure, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was modeled after the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy.
It was designed by local architect Joseph Evans Sperry for Isaac Edward Emerson , who invented the Bromo-Seltzer headache remedy. For years, the landmark tower was surrounded by and part of the Emerson Drug Company with its office headquarters and manufacturing plant for the carbonated headache pain relief tablets or powder Bromo-Seltzer.
May 6, 2017 · Discover Bromo-Seltzer Arts Tower in Baltimore, Maryland: Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.
The tower was built by Captain Isaac Emerson, a chemist, and inventor of the headache remedy and alleged hangover cure, Bromo-Seltzer. Emerson was a wealthy and well-regarded Baltimorean, known as a generous philanthropist and world traveler.
Since 2008 the tower has housed a series of artists’ studios and exhibit space, with tours available of the clockworks and a collection of Bromo Seltzer and Maryland glass bottles. The clock underwent a major restoration in 2015–2017 to return it to its original gravity-driven operation.
This industrial space area is accessed as part of the history tour and only accessible when accompanied by a guide. The clockworks, which underwent a full restoration, is the largest four dial gravity driven non-chiming clock in the world with the magnificent 24ft dials.
