Hendler Creamery

Hendler Creamery was an industrial complex in Jonestown, Baltimore, Maryland. It is historically significant in three areas: transportation, performing arts, and industry. It was originally a cable-car powerhouse that lasted only six years; after cable cars were replaced by overhead electric street cars around the turn of the century, the building became a theater; and finally a popular ice cream factory that lasted for many decades as a notable part of Baltimore culture and heritage. The building, deemed structurally sound in 2007, was purchased in 2012 by a local developer who promised to renovate it. Instead nothing happened. Indeed the roof was intentionally removed exposing the interior to the elements, necessitating the building's complete demolition a few years later. The property was stripped of historic valuables and then fully demolished, in September 2024, to make way for a privately owned "park". The building was a case study in the phenomenon known as demolition by neglect.

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