EpilogueT. Rowe Price Today
If Mr. Price miraculously arrived one pleasant summer morning in 2018 at 100 East Pratt Street in downtown Baltimore, the global headquarters of T. Rowe Price Group, what would he find that was familiar? What would be new? How had the company that he, Charlie, Walter, Marie, and Isabella founded in 1937 with so much effort and sacrifice fared over the 35 years since his death? What is the working environment at the company like now? Would he still be proud to have his name on the masthead?
Standing on the southwest corner of East Pratt and Light Streets, he would discover that the exterior of the original building had changed very little. It is the same handsome, modern concrete structure that Pietro Belluschi designed for IBM, the building's first major tenant. T. Rowe Price Associates had moved there in 1975, also as one of the first tenants. Baltimore Inner Harbor to the south would be beginning to bustle with tourists. East Pratt Street traffic would seem the same – heavy. He would notice a twenty‐eight‐floor tower attached to the rear of the original ten‐story building. The tower added 110,000 square feet, bringing the total interior square feet for all tenants to 653,000. Mr. Price would soon discover that the firm had also expanded, far beyond the three floors that it had occupied in the original building in 1983, the year that he died. The T. Rowe Price Group now fills the entire original building, plus an additional three floors of the new ...