Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company

Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company
Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company, September 2012
Location 202 E. Redwood St., Baltimore, Maryland
Coordinates 39°17′21″N 76°36′45″W / 39.28917°N 76.61250°WCoordinates: 39°17′21″N 76°36′45″W / 39.28917°N 76.61250°W
Built 1885
Architect Wyatt & Sperry
Architectural style Romanesque
Governing body Private
NRHP Reference #

83002935

[1]
Added to NRHP March 17, 1983

Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company is a historic bank building in Baltimore, designed by the Baltimore architectural firm of Wyatt and Sperry and constructed in 1885. It has a brick-with-stone-ornamentation Romanesque Revival structure, with deeply set windows, round-arch window openings, squat columns with foliated capitals, steeply pitched broad plane roofs, and straight-topped window groups. The interior features a large banking room with a balcony, Corinthian columns and ornate wall plaster work. [2]

Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]

Previously the home of Club Dubai, the building was purchased by Modern Globe LLC for $1.25 million in May 2012 for use by the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company. After improvements estimated to cost about $6 million, there are plans to open the Mercantile building as a new venue for the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company in 2014. Plans call for a thrust stage, surrounded on three sides by two mezzanine levels.[3]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15.
  2. ↑ "Maryland Historical Trust". Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company, Baltimore City. Maryland Historical Trust. 2008-11-21.
  3. ↑ Tim Smith and Mary Carole McCauley (May 8, 2012). "Chesapeake Shakespeare plans move into the city". The Baltimore Sun. pp. 1, 5.

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