The Cabot Theatre in Beverly, MA, originally opened on December 8, 1920 as the Ware Theatre. Early advertisements hailed the theater as “the most impressive auditorium of its size east of New York” and “The Golden Theatre Beautiful.” The theater was built by Harris and Glover Ware, who also operated the nearby Larcom Theater. They […]
The Duo Multicultural Arts Center building opened in 1889 as a dance and catering hall. The building comprised restaurants, meeting halls, and residences. John Philip Sousa, the famous American composer, established one of the first musicians’ unions in the building’s ballroom. The ballroom was converted into a theater in the 1930s and was named the […]
Crane Beach was formed in 1945 as a gift of 1,000 acres from the estate of Richard T. Crane, Jr. after his death to the Trustees of Reservations, Massachusetts’ largest preservation and conservation nonprofit. The 1,000 acres was most of the current Crane Beach to the dunes of Castle Neck, with a further 350 […]
Public School 186 opened in 1903 as a Harlem elementary school. C. B. J. Snyder, an architect who eventually became the Superintendent of School Buildings for the New York City Board of Education between 1891 and 1923, designed it. The building is shaped like an H and was inspired by the Hôtel de Cluny in […]
Proctor’s Palace Roof Theatre opened on November 22, 1915. The Palace was originally used for smaller vaudeville productions before switching over to film in the mid-1920s. During the next few decades, the Proctor’s Roof Theatre was not used very often but received a remodel into an art-house cinema and reopened in the summer of 1961 […]
The Union Theatre in Attleboro, MA originally opened in 1918 as a vaudeville and silent movie theater. It was operated by B & Q Associates and had 1,101 seats. Because of the decline in vaudeville, and the rise of the modern talking motion picture, the Union underwent a remodel in 1927 to give it the […]
Philadelphia’s Ice Castle was formerly the Locust Medical Center at 52nd and Locust Streets. The vacant doctor’s office and pharmacy caught fire in the early morning hours of February 16, 2015. The temperature was 3 degrees with a windchill factor of -16 below, and the water used on the fire froze on nearby buildings, power […]
The SS United States, nicknamed “The Big U”, isn’t just any passenger liner. At a length of 990 feet, with 12 decks and 101-feet wide, she is larger than the Titanic, and is in fact the largest liner ever built in an American shipyard. She is also the fastest, though for many years her top […]
Philadephia is an architecture lover’s delight: from Horace Trumbauer’s more classical Greek stylings of the Philadelphia Museum of Art or the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Parkway Central Library to the more eclectic Frank Furness buildings like the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts or the colonial flair of Old City, there are amazing discoveries around […]
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