Five commercial buildings have been lost as a result of the five-alarm fire that tore through Baltimore’s Five & Dime Historic District on Sept. 2, and the future of several others remains uncertain.

One of the buildings collapsed and others have been demolished or are in the process of being taken down because they are so structurally unsound that they pose a danger to public safety, according to city officials who delivered a briefing this week to Baltimore’s Commission on Historical and Architectural Preservation (CHAP), which monitors changes to buildings in city historic districts.

The fate of several other buildings along Howard Street is uncertain because they are still being evaluated to determine how much of them, if anything, can be saved.

The affected structures were part of

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