A powerhouse for Baltimore streetcars. A 2,000-seat venue for plays, circuses and vaudeville acts. A Yiddish language theater for the city’s growing Jewish population.

Then from 1912 until the 1980s, the castle-like red brick building at 1100 East Baltimore Street was the home of a famous ice cream packing plant, Hendler’s Creamery.

These days, as The Brew reported last week, the partially demolished structure is the site of a stalled $75 million mixed-use redevelopment by Kevin Johnson’s Commercial Group.

Only three walls of the Richardsonian Romanesque building remain standing, propped up by metal braces, while the interior is open to the elements.

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