Seville Theatre (Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania)
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The Seville Theatre, also known as the Bryn Mawr Theatre, is an historic, American
theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a Stage (theatre), stage. The performe ...
building that is located in Lower Merion Township,
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Montgomery County, colloquially referred to as Montco, is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population of the county was 856,553, making it the third-most populous county in Pennsylvania after Philadel ...
. It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 2005.


History and architectural features

Built in 1926, this historic structure is a two-story, three-bay-wide, rectangular, steel-frame building that was designed in the Beaux-Arts style. It measures 56 feet wide and 265 feet deep, and was designed by noted theatre architect William Harold Lee (1884-1971). ''Note:'' This includes It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 2005.


References


External links


Bryn Mawr Film Institute (BMFI) website
{{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Theatres on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Beaux-Arts architecture in Pennsylvania Theatres completed in 1926 Buildings and structures in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania 1926 establishments in Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania