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.
Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
Previously the home of Club Dubai, the building was purchased by the Helm Foundation for $1.25 million in May 2012. After improvements estimated to cost about $6 million, the Helm Foundation 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 a mezzanine.
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