MARYLAND HISTORICAL TRUST NR Eligible: yes _ DETERMINATION OF ELIGIBILITY FORM no a Property Name: Olney Theatre center (Olney Theater complex) Inventory Number: M: 23-153 Address: ng±gfl££]ES±:£=E£±:£E:iEgE22£ Historicdistrict: ±yes quDX© n° City: Ill,,lE=J- Sandy spring Zipcode: 20860 C ounty : Montgomery USGS Quadrangle(s): Sandy spring Property Owner: Olney Theatre Center for the Arts, Inc. Tax Account ID Number: 0803017314 Tax Map Parcel Number(s): N775 TaxMapNumber: JT12 Project: Dr. Bird / Norwood Road - Shared Use Path Project Agency: MCDOT Agency Prepared By: RK&K, LLP Preparer'S Name: fflill±£:gE±±E±!Ei!±±±!¥!£8!:£Pi£±!=:=± Date prepared: 4/28/2021 Documentation is presented in: Project review and compliance files and MIHp form M: 23-153 Preparer's Eligibility Recommendation: Eligibility recommended X Eligibility not recommended Criteri a : A 8 C D C ons iderations : A 8 C D E F G E5± is33± iT-±= iE-I - i- iL ii - iii- tB- Complete if the property is a contributing or non-contributing resource to a NR district/property: Name of the District/Property: Inventory Number: Eligible: yes Listed: _ yes ® Site visit by MHT staff yes X no Name: Description of property and Justification: /P/eczse czf/crch mczp cr#cJpfeo/o/ The Olney Theatre Center was evaluated for the National Register of Historic Places OVRHP) and detemined ineligible for inclusion in 1995. Because it has been more than twenty years since the Olney Theatre Center has been evaluated, the property's NRIIP eligibility was reevaluated for this project. LOCATION/SETTING The irregularly shaped 10.6-acre parcel contains a variety of buildings and structures at the center of the property, including the circa-1898 Crawford House and the circa-1940 historic stage. The property is on the north side of Olney Sandy Spring Road at its intersection with Doctor Bird Road. Three driveways provide access to the property from Olney Sandy Spring Road. They lead to a paved looped road and parking lot south of the buildings. Northeast is a large, irregularly shaped parking lot. The Crawford House is at the center of the property and the historic stage is to the west, separated by a concrete patio and wood deck. West of, and cormected to, the historic stage is the circa-2005 mainstage, lobby, and William H. Graham St. Actors Hall. North and east of the historic stage is the circa-1995 costume and scene shop. East of the Crawford House is the detached,1999 Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab. At the southwest comer of site, and removed from the other buildings is a small, mid-twentieth-century cottage 2®.a`se2 G® `.i NR-ELIGIBILITY REVIEW FORM M: 23-153 01ney Theatre Center (Olney Theater Complex) surrounded by trees and a small pond. Northwest of the historic stage is an outdoor performance space. There are also metal a containers in the north yard. The remainder of the parcel is landscaped and has mature trees. A low V-shaped concrete sign is at the center driveway. DESCRIPTION Actor's Residence (Crawford House), circa 1898 The Actor's Residence, currently called Crawford House, has been heavily altered since its construction circa 1898. It originally consisted of a frame, two-and-a-half-story, side-gable building with a large projecting cross gable that sits on a stone foundation. Hipped-roof sections extend from the northeast and northwest sides of the cross gable. A circa-1920, one-story, enclosed hipped- roof porch with a concrete-block foundation is on the east, south, and west sides. The building is clad in synthetic horizontal siding and features scalloped shingles within all the gable ends. There are a variety of window types and the roof is covered in asphalt shingles. The primary entrance on the twelve-bay, south faeade of the first story is paired twelve-light doors accessed via a short flight of stone steps in the fourth bay. A secondary, single entrance with a single window to the west in the third bay is reached through a wooden accessibility ramp. The remainder of the first story consists of paired windows separated by wooden pilasters. Windows on the porch are generally frame six-over-six sash, but at least one is a vinyl replacement. The second story has six irregularly spaced one-over-one windows with a wood surround. There are paired one-over-one windows in the gable end. The first story of the east elevation has eight bays divided by wooden posts. The sixth bay has paired nine-light doors that are accessed via a set of wood steps. The remainder of the bays have paired six-over-six wood windows. The second story has two one- over-one windows. North of the windows is a projecting wooden enclosure with a dianond-shaped panel. A hipped pent roof is behind the enclosure. The gable end has a two-sided bay window. North, and recessed from, the gable end is a hipped roof section with a stained-glass-block window on the second story and a hipped roof dormer. A flight of wood steps winds north from the base 0 of the first-story stairs to a wooden deck over the north side of enclosed first-story porch. The north (rear) elevation has ilTegular fenestration. At the basement of the cross gable, two curved stone walls interrupt the stone foundation and lead to a single door accessed by a flight of brick steps. There is a single door with nine lights at the west end of the first story that is accessed via a short flight of wood steps. It has a wooden stoop covered by a frame portico supported by two slender square posts. Other fenestration includes paired small four-light frame windows, single four-light windows, one-over-one sash windows, and a round multi-pane wooden window on the east side of the second story. The eight-bay first story of the west elevation has irregular fenestration that includes paired four-light windows in the second, third, and fourth bays, and paired six-over-six sash windows in the fifth through eighth bays. The first bay has no fenestration. The second story has a hipped roof section north of a front-facing gable. A small shed-roof addition extends from the juncture of the hipped roof and gable. There are two one-over-one windows. A wood deck accessed via a wooden ramp and a small flight of steps is on this elevation. Historic Stage, circa 1940, and Costume and Scene Shops, circa 1995 The circa-1940 historic stage building consists of a two-story, flat-roof section oriented roughly east-west. A one-story, flat-roof enclosed porch is to the south, and a one-and-a-half-story, gable-roof section, oriented north-south, is to the north. Further north, and oriented east-west, are a series of one and two-story, gable-roof sections that comprise the costume and scene shops for the MARYLAND HISTORICAL TRUST REVIEW Eligibility recommended E]igibiLity not recommended Criteria: _A ©8 _C ©D Considerations: _A _8 ©C ©D _E _F ©G MHT Comments: Reviewer, Office of Preservation Services Reviewer, National Register Program NR-ELIGIBILITY REVIEW FORM M: 23-153 Olney Theatre Center (01ney Theater Complex) theater. The building is clad in synthetic siding and the roofs are asphalt or asphalt shingle. The first story of the nine-bay north faeade rests on a stone foundation and has a center entrance with paired glass doors accessed by concrete steps with stone sidewalls. The remaining bays have paired single light windows. The second story has five evenly spaced six-over-six windows with wood surrounds. A round multi-pane wood window is at the east end. There is a wood cornice with a parapet at the roofline. The east elevation of the porch has paired glass doors protected by a gable-front cloth awning. The two-story section has a projecting first story with paired metal doors. The second story has a single wood door accessed by a wood stair; a six-over-six window is north of the door. The remainder of the elevation has no fenestration. The north (rear) elevation of the Historic Stage and Costume and Scene shops consists of a series of side-gable sections of varying height with little fenestration. The first story is obscured by wall-in areas and metal containers and dumpsters. The eastern section is one-and-a-half-stories high, and the western is two-stories high. In the center is a one-story section with a projecting shed-roof addition with evenly spaced one-over-one sash windows. The costume shop has a gable roof and no fenestration on the north elevation. The east elevation of the Costume and Scene Shop wing has a large opening with a metal rollup door and a single metal door. The west elevation is obscured by the circa-2005 Actor's Hall and lobby. Cottage, mid-twentieth century The white stone, side-gable cottage has an asphalt-shingle roof. The north facade has a center entrance with a paneled wood door and a storm door; to either side are six-over-one windows. The east elevation has a single window on the first story. The gable end has horizontal wood siding and a boarded-up opening. The north elevation has a nearly full-width, shed-roof addition clad in wood siding. The north elevation of the addition has an off-center, five-panel door flanked by two horizontal openings, one of which is boarded up. A stone chimney rises from the east side of the main building.