High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Peter Street (baptised 1 July 1553, died May 1609) was a carpenter and builder in London in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. He built the Fortune Playhouse, and probably the Globe Theatre, two significant establishments in the history of the stage in London. He had a part in building King James`s Banqueting House in Whitehall Palace and he may have been responsible for the settings for the king`s royal masques.