Homewood Museum Architecture Lecture: Restoring Fells Point's Ship Caulkers' Houses

Courtney G. Capute. As a founding member of the Friends of the Ship Caulkers’ Houses, Ms. Capute has served as President of the organization since 2019.  She is a retired real estate lawyer, formerly a partner with the law firm Venable LLP. Prior to retiring, she was the Partner in Charge of Venable’s Baltimore office and was a member of Venable’s real estate practice group for over 30 years. As a resident of Fell’s Point for over 40 years, Ms. Capute and her architect husband, Arnold J. Capute, Jr. also a governing board member of the Friends Group, were drawn to Fell’s Point because of its early architecture.  They restored and lived in a 1790’s Fell’s Point row house on Shakespeare Street, a restoration that included attention to detail down to making the hand planes necessary to replicate missing moldings. The house is now owned by their son and his wife, but Courtney and Arnold remain residents of Fell’s Point.

Sarah Groesbeck has a B.A. in Art History and an M.A. in Historic Preservation. She has worked in the Cultural Resources Management field for over 15 years, including an internship with the National Parks Service National Capital Region Cultural Landscapes program, as a Preservation Planner with Montgomery Parks, and as an architectural historian at the Louis Berger Group. Sarah is currently employed by the state of Maryland as an architectural historian. She is a board member of the Society for the Preservation of Federal Hill and Fell's Point and serves as Secretary of the Friends of the Ship Caulkers' Houses.