Construction Tour:

Chesapeake Shakespeare Company recently purchased the historic Mercantile Safe Deposit and Trust Building in downtown Baltimore. The 1885 brownstone, originally designed by Wyatt and Sperry Architects, will be transformed into a 250-seat theater slated to open in fall 2014. According to CSC Artistic Director Ian Gallanar: "The configuration of the building itself has some of the same layout as the Globe Theatre. That's what we're riffing off of. We're trying to recreate a modern Globe. Three levels,… Show more an intimacy that I think is very important."
TIME:
5:30 p.m. Reception
6 p.m. Tour
1 AIA/CES credits (HSW)
Interns and Students: 1 hour of IDP Construction Site Observation credit (category B-13)
Presented by AIABaltimore Historic Rescources Committee

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