The Mayfair Theatre
Jul. 1st, 2014 08:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI just edited and posted a set of images of the 1880-built Mayfair Theatre in Baltimore. It's one of the earlier performance venues I've seen in person, there are relatively few 19th century examples left in the USA. It currently stands abandoned, and in serious disrepair. The Cinema Treasures website says that the roof collapsed in the 1990s, and it's immediately apparent that the building suffers from decades of neglect.
The architectural sculpture has lost none of its beauty over the hundred and twenty year span that it's looked out on Howard Street. The laughing and crying satyrs of comeday and drama are accompanied by other symbols of creativity and music. The facade in general is a grand European revival one. I don't know these styles very well, but it looks Italianate perhaps, with those round third-floor windows.
It was entirely coincidental that the Mayfair was standing right next to the parking lot where my girlfriend and I stowed our car while we were in Baltimore, and I'm really glad I happened on her.
The architectural sculpture has lost none of its beauty over the hundred and twenty year span that it's looked out on Howard Street. The laughing and crying satyrs of comeday and drama are accompanied by other symbols of creativity and music. The facade in general is a grand European revival one. I don't know these styles very well, but it looks Italianate perhaps, with those round third-floor windows.
It was entirely coincidental that the Mayfair was standing right next to the parking lot where my girlfriend and I stowed our car while we were in Baltimore, and I'm really glad I happened on her.
