WIE Moves to 33 North Charles Street

The new building was when the tea room/lunchroom was added as one of the Exchange’s services. This article says that they moved to 85 North Charles Street in 1882 (in 1887 the Baltimore City street numbers were changed and the address became 331 North Charles Street) but then moved next door in 1900 to 333 North Charles Street. Nellie Schley Fisher later noted that 5,000 lunches were served in the tea room in 1886 and that by 1896 the number of lunches served annually increased to 14,500.

Quote from Nellie Fisher in this article: “So much has been done to dignify women’s work, and there are so many who prefer to earn money by their own efforts rather than ‘eat the bread of dependence,’ but until the exchange was established there was no way open for the accomplishment of this end. By these means gentlewomen find a way to support themselves protected from the publicity from which a sensitive nature shrinks.”

Source:
“Exchange Withstands Time.” The Evening Sun, 26 Mar. 1969.