Baltimore fire officials said it’s too soon to determine the cause of a Monday blaze that destroyed four stores in Edmondson Village Shopping Center, a 61-year-old Baltimore National Pike landmark trumpeted as the city’s first large strip mall.

The four-alarm blaze started about 9:15 a.m. in the Ashley Stewart Woman clothing store and quickly spread to a beauty supply store and a sandwich shop.

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