Masonry Magazine February 1985 Page. 43
The restored Brice House in Annapolis, Md., is now headquarters of the International Masonry Center operated by IMI.
Brice House Opening Celebrates
Masonry Craft Skills
Craft skills of the men who constructed the historic Brice House in Annapolis, Md., more than 200 years ago, and the workers and mason contractors whose skills have over the past year and a half restored and preserved the house, were honored at receptions celebrating the opening of Brice House as headquarters of the International Masonry Center.
More than 500 people including many of the craftsmen and contractors who worked on Brice House and who were guests of honor attended the receptions which culminated the first phase of a program to make Brice House the center of masonry industry activities in the U.S. and Canada.
MCAA president William C. Dentinger, Jr., said, "The opening of Brice House is important to our industry because it demonstrates the continuity of two centuries of the crafts skills on which we all rely, and it gives our industry a headquarters that will help it meet present and future challenges."
The International Masonry Center will be operated by the International Masonry Institute, the labor/management arm of the Mason Contractors Association of America and the International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftsmen (BAC). Brice House, as headquarters of the Center, now offers meeting and conference facilities to masonry industry and other groups. The second phase of restoration at
IMI's Board of Trustees met in the ballroom of Brice House on the day following its opening. Shown seated at the conference table (clockwise from lower left) are IMI executive vice president Ray Lackey; IMI legal counsel Robert Mayer; MCAA secretary C. DeWitt Brown, Jr.; BAC secretary/treasurer Edward M. Bellucci; MCAA executive vice president George A. Miller; MCAA president and IMI co-chairman W. C. Dentinger, Jr.; BAC president and IMI co-chairman John T. Joyce; BAC executive vice president L. Gerald Carlisle, and (in foreground) Bruce Voss, executive director of Apprenticeship and Training for IMI. Partially obscured behind Voss are Don Leonard, MCAA immediate past president: James F. Richardson and Louis Weir, BAC executive vice presidents.
MASONRY-JANUARY/FEBRUARY, 1985 43