An exterior fire at one of Baltimore’s Circuit Court buildings Tuesday morning led to its evacuation, halting court proceedings for the day in that courthouse, officials said.
When the Baltimore City Courthouse, now the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Courthouse, opened in 1900, the frieze in the Supreme Bench Courtroom, now Room 600, included the names of 24 preeminent Maryland judges and lawyers of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. In 2000, the Bar Association of Baltimore City updated the list with 48 additional .