Seville Theatre, also known as the Bryn Mawr Theatre, is a historic

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

building located at

Lower Merion Township Lower Merion Township is a township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Philadelphia Main Line. The township's name originates with the county of Merioneth in north Wales. Merioneth is an English-language transcription of the W ...

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. It was built in 1926, and is a two-story, three bay wide, rectangular steel frame building in the Beaux-Arts style. It measures 56 feet wide and 265 feet deep. It was designed by noted theatre architect

William Harold Lee William Harold Lee (December 9, 1884 – February 3, 1971) was an American 20th century movie theater designer and later the chief architect for Eastern College. He was a protégé of acclaimed Philadelphia architect Frank Furness. Lee att ...

(1884-1971). ''Note:'' This includes It was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 2005.

References

External links

Bryn Mawr Film Institute (BMFI) website
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