November 23, 2021
Moss and Brill’s Hamilton Theatre opened on January 23, 1913, in Manhattan’s Hamilton Heights neighborhood. Famed theater architect Thomas W. Lamb was commissioned to design the building by vaudeville operator Benjamin S. Moss and theater developer Solomon Bril. Lamb designed the Hamilton in the Renaissance Revival style, incorporating a terracotta façade. On November 26, 1913, […]
November 23, 2021
The Ritz Theatre in Carteret, New Jersey, originally opened on September 1, 1927. According to an article in “The Carteret Press,” “it was the first modern theater to be erected in the borough and is up-to-date in every respect.” The 1,000 to 1,200 seat Ritz (accounts on the number of seats differ) was designed by […]
November 23, 2021
The Boyd Theatre, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s only art deco movie palace, opened on Christmas day in 1928. Located in Philadelphia’s Center City neighborhood, the 2,450 seat theater was commissioned by Alexander Boyd and built by Hoffman-Henon, a Philadelphia architecture firm also known for the construction of the nearby Prince Music Theatre. One of the companies commissioned […]
November 23, 2021
Stevie Wonder, the Jackson 5, The Temptations, Ray Charles, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight & the Pips, and the Supremes, besides being renowned musical artists, all have one thing in common besides being famous musical artists; they all performed at the Uptown Theatre in Philadelphia, PA. Located in the North Central neighborhood of Philadelphia, […]
November 22, 2021
The Embassy Theatre opened on August 12, 1926, in Port Chester, NY. Designed by prominent theater architect Thomas W. Lamb, the 1,591 seat theater was built on an old Elk Lodge. Lamb also designed the nearby Capitol Theatre, which opened just a few days after the Embassy. Like most theaters of its time, the Embassy […]
November 22, 2021
The Paramount Theatre opened on October 11, 1886, as H.C. Miner’s Newark Theatre. It was originally a vaudeville house managed by Hyde & Behman Amusement Co., a Brooklyn-based theater company. After H.C. Miner died in 1900, his surviving relatives retained ownership of the theater for several years before selling it in 1916 to Edward Spiegel, […]
November 22, 2021
The Adams Theatre in Newark, New Jersey, originally opened on January 12, 1912, as the Shubert Theatre. It was designed in the Beaux-Arts style by architect William E. Lehman, who also designed the Proctor’s Palace Theatre in Yonkers, NY. The 2,037 seat theater was initially used for theatrical productions, Broadway tryouts, and revivals. In August […]
November 22, 2021
RKO Proctor’s Theatre opened in Newark, New Jersey, on November 22, 1915, as the Proctor’s Palace Theatre. The architect was John W. Merrow, the nephew of Proctor theater circuit owner Frederick F. Proctor. It cost $1,000,000 ($24,874,554.46 with inflation) and took three years to construct the building. The Palace was a double-decker theater, which meant […]
November 17, 2021
“Zinc Sculpture in America, 1850-1950” by Carol A. Grissom states that the brothers who founded the Bureau Brothers Bronze Foundry were French-born Edouard and Achille Bureau, who originally worked for another company that produced work installed in Central Park in New York. In the 1870s they formed their own business at 21st St and Allegheny […]
November 17, 2021
Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia is a spot you could easily walk past hundreds of times without realizing what a gem the interior is. Part of this is due to the fact that it is still a functional, 515-bed hospital – but the main building, a National Historic Landmark built in 1756 at 8th and Pine, […]
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