The Stieff Silver Building consists of two connected buildings, at 800 Wyman Parkway, just west of campus at the edges of Druid Hill and Wyman parks. The MCP @ Stieff opened in Spring 2022. The building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The original building was constructed in April, 1924 as a state-of-the-art silversmith for the Stieff Silver Company. The 1924 building added a second floor in 1929. The second building, attached to the west side, was added in 1971 as the company expanded to produce pewter.

Stieff Silver was known for quality and value of their silver products, beautiful hand chasing & Repoussé work. Their most famous pattern was Maryland Rose (Stieff Rose) introduced in 1892. Also of note were patterns commissioned for Colonial Williamsburg and the Smithsonian Institution. In 1967, Stieff bought the Schofield Company who made silver flatware and the Woodlawn Vase replica — the trophy of the Preakness Derby.

In the 1970s and 80s, pewter became Stieff’s most important product. During that time, Stieff merged with S. Kirk & Son and was renamed Kirk-Stieff and all silver and pewter production was consolidated to the Wyman building.

In 1990, Kirk-Stieff was sold to Lenox, a division of Brown-Forman Corp. and continued to produce silver hollow ware and pewter till 1999. The building was purchased by Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse. It was rented by the Whiting School of Engineering of Johns Hopkins University for lab space, and used as office space for the Space Telescope Science Institute and others.

The whole building was purchased by WSE in the fall of 2017 as the location for the MCP, labs for the Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Environmental Health Sciences, and other centers
Renovations for the MCP began in September 2020 and we are currently putting on the finishing touches.