Venue Tour Round 3: Baltimore Zoo Mansion

Well, our last shot was on Feb 28, the Baltimore Zoo Mansion (indoor porch). I'm going to keep this a little shorter because we knew right away the mansion would not be an option.

Pros:
+Loved the wall color, crown molding, and rows of beautiful windows. Very simple, clean and elegant
+Neutral carpeting
+Nice staircase inside the mansion
+Away from the street (hidden)
+Much more simple chandeliers
+Chairs and tables included
+LOVED Jane Sheffsky, the event coordinator, she is SO NICE and friendly---she would have been a breeze to work with. Very sweet and personable.

Cons:
-SHAPE of the room. Picture a square, with a smaller square in the middle. That smaller square is the house. The floors and walls around it is the venue (porch). The entire event would have to literally wrap around the corners----NOT COOL. TOo cramped and people can not walk around and communicate smoothly and see everything either. That was disappointing. The online pictures did not indicate this arrangement. Oh well.
-ONLY 4 SEPARATE BATHROOMS. That are unisex. 2 on 1 floor, 2 upstairs. Not gonna cut it AT ALL!! How can you expect 100-150 people to use only 4 bathrooms! No way.
-No catering/full kitchen. Jane suggested renting cook tents, but that would mean extra costs for us and Russian caterers need a full indoor kitchen anyway.

For anyone out there looking for a place to hold a SMALL event. Please consider the positives, but keep in mind the negatives too. I would not completely write this place off for general events.

What a shame.

Here is the slideshow: