Historic Spring House at Baltimore Museum of Art Gets New Life as ‘House for New Media’

The Spring House at the Baltimore Museum of Art will soon house The Screen House, Baltimore’s newest — and oldest — tiny theater.

The historic building is a Greek Revival structure that started as a “dairy” used to keep milk cool on an estate in North Baltimore and was tended by enslaved people before it was moved to the museum’s grounds in 1932.

Dating from around 1815 and visible from Art Museum Drive just west of the main museum, it’s one of the only works in Maryland designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, known as the “father of American architecture,” who also designed the Basilica of the Assumption and the United States Capitol. It’s considered one of the purest surviving examples of neo-classical architecture in the state.

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