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Uptown Theatre (also known as Balaban and Katz Uptown Theatre) is a massive, ornate movie palace located at the intersection of North Broadway and West Lawrence Avenue in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago. It was designed by Rapp and Rapp and constructed in 1925.
Photograph by James Russiello - One of Loew's original five "wonder theaters" in New York City, "designed by the renowned firm of Rapp & Rapp, Kings Theatre opened in 1929 as Loew’s flagship theater. Its French Renaissance style architecture was inspired by the Palace of Versailles and the Paris Opera House. It features high, curved ceilings, ornate plaster walls, wood paneling, pink marble, and a glazed terra-cotta ornamental façade, making it a classic, early 20th century movie palace. The theater has been vacant since 1978." Restored by ACE Theatrical Group, LLC of Houston, Texas, a "firm specializing in historic restoration and theater operation, ACE will lease the theater from the City. ACE's many projects include the Boston Opera House, the Chicago Theatre and the Warner Theatre in Washington DC. ACE will host about 200 to 250 productions a year." History of the restoration: www.nycedc.com/project/kings-theatre
Built in 1921, this French Renaissance Revival-style building was designed by Rapp and Rapp to house the Chicago Theatre, part of the Balaban and Katz chain to serve as their flagship theater, hosting movie screenings and live performances. The building originally housed a 3,880-seat auditorium, and was among the first movie palaces to be built in the United States, and is the oldest surviving example of a French Renaissance Revival or Neo-Baroque theater building in Chicago designed by Rapp and Rapp. The building hosted many notable live stage shows during its early history, with jazz performances being particularly popular in the early years.
The building’s large auditorium fills up the entire middle half of the block the building stands on, with a separate commercial building to the rear, along Wabash Street, and the historic Page Building, which was built to house offices on the upper floors and retail space on the ground floor, on the north side of the lobby wing along State Street. The exterior of the auditorium is rather plain, and is clad in brick with terra cotta trim at the bays that contain doors at street level, with a large vaulted roof over the auditorium and a separate, smaller, low-slope roof high above the stage house in the rear. The most ornate portion of the exterior is the facade of the lobby along State Street, which is clad in terra cotta with decorative reliefs, a large arched window with a circular panel containing stained glass, sculptures, cartouches, broken pediments, windows on the upper portion flanked by reliefs below an intricate cornice with dentist and rosettes, windows at the top of the facade with arched pediments and cartouches above them, stone panels at the base, a large and intricate marquee over the street, and a tall blade sign mounted in front of the north bay of the facade. The Page Building, which stands north of the lobby, features a brick facade with a curtain wall facade at the base with Chicago windows, paired one-over-one double-hung windows on the upper floors, cartouches above the end window bays and pilasters between the intermediate bays, and a cornice with modillions. Inside, the theater lobby is richly decorated with a grand staircase featuring a decorative metal balustrade, broken pediments richly trimmed with sculptural reliefs, cartouches, and garlands, paneled walls, decorative cornice trim on the ceilings, decorative columns, a vaulted ceiling, chandeliers, marble and carpet floors, marble cladding on the walls and columns immediately inside the front entrance, brass torchiere light fixtures on the balcony over the front entrance, and coffered ceilings over the balconies. The interior of the auditorium features a ceiling with a domed central section, decorative trim work on the ceiling, murals by artist Louis Grell around the edges of the ceiling, decorative sculptural reliefs, cartouches, and pediments on the walls, a Wurlitzer organ, box seats with half-domed hoods, engaged fluted corinthian columns, decorative balustrades and semi-circular balconies, arched bays on the walls ringing the balcony, a decorative and ornate proscenium arch that terminates in a mural at the top, decorative chandeliers, box seats beneath the balcony, and a vaulted ceiling under the main balcony.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, and was designated a Chicago Landmark in 1983. The theater went through a period of decline in the 1970s, which led to the building becoming host to live performances once again, after a period of functioning solely as a cinema that started in the 1950s. The theater and adjacent Page Building were purchased by the Chicago Theatre Preservation Group in 1984, and in 1985, due to no longer being viable as a cinema, the last first-run motion picture screening was held at the theater. The building was renovated in 1986 to modernize building system and restore historic elements, carried out under the direction of Daniel P. Coffey and Associates, Ltd and A.T. Heinsbergen and Company. As part of the renovations, the building’s interior was reverted to its circa 1930s appearance, and the theater capacity was reduced to 3,600 seats. In 1994, another renovation replaced the 1949 marquee with a new one that was identical, with the old marquee being donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 2004. In 2004, the building was purchased by TheatreDreams Chicago, LLC, which sold it to Madison Square Garden Entertainment in 2007. The building today still hosts a variety of shows and live performances, being an anchor of Chicago’s historic downtown theater district, and a significant local landmark.
Built in 1921, this French Renaissance Revival-style building was designed by Rapp and Rapp to house the Chicago Theatre, part of the Balaban and Katz chain to serve as their flagship theater, hosting movie screenings and live performances. The building originally housed a 3,880-seat auditorium, and was among the first movie palaces to be built in the United States, and is the oldest surviving example of a French Renaissance Revival or Neo-Baroque theater building in Chicago designed by Rapp and Rapp. The building hosted many notable live stage shows during its early history, with jazz performances being particularly popular in the early years.
The building’s large auditorium fills up the entire middle half of the block the building stands on, with a separate commercial building to the rear, along Wabash Street, and the historic Page Building, which was built to house offices on the upper floors and retail space on the ground floor, on the north side of the lobby wing along State Street. The exterior of the auditorium is rather plain, and is clad in brick with terra cotta trim at the bays that contain doors at street level, with a large vaulted roof over the auditorium and a separate, smaller, low-slope roof high above the stage house in the rear. The most ornate portion of the exterior is the facade of the lobby along State Street, which is clad in terra cotta with decorative reliefs, a large arched window with a circular panel containing stained glass, sculptures, cartouches, broken pediments, windows on the upper portion flanked by reliefs below an intricate cornice with dentist and rosettes, windows at the top of the facade with arched pediments and cartouches above them, stone panels at the base, a large and intricate marquee over the street, and a tall blade sign mounted in front of the north bay of the facade. The Page Building, which stands north of the lobby, features a brick facade with a curtain wall facade at the base with Chicago windows, paired one-over-one double-hung windows on the upper floors, cartouches above the end window bays and pilasters between the intermediate bays, and a cornice with modillions. Inside, the theater lobby is richly decorated with a grand staircase featuring a decorative metal balustrade, broken pediments richly trimmed with sculptural reliefs, cartouches, and garlands, paneled walls, decorative cornice trim on the ceilings, decorative columns, a vaulted ceiling, chandeliers, marble and carpet floors, marble cladding on the walls and columns immediately inside the front entrance, brass torchiere light fixtures on the balcony over the front entrance, and coffered ceilings over the balconies. The interior of the auditorium features a ceiling with a domed central section, decorative trim work on the ceiling, murals by artist Louis Grell around the edges of the ceiling, decorative sculptural reliefs, cartouches, and pediments on the walls, a Wurlitzer organ, box seats with half-domed hoods, engaged fluted corinthian columns, decorative balustrades and semi-circular balconies, arched bays on the walls ringing the balcony, a decorative and ornate proscenium arch that terminates in a mural at the top, decorative chandeliers, box seats beneath the balcony, and a vaulted ceiling under the main balcony.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, and was designated a Chicago Landmark in 1983. The theater went through a period of decline in the 1970s, which led to the building becoming host to live performances once again, after a period of functioning solely as a cinema that started in the 1950s. The theater and adjacent Page Building were purchased by the Chicago Theatre Preservation Group in 1984, and in 1985, due to no longer being viable as a cinema, the last first-run motion picture screening was held at the theater. The building was renovated in 1986 to modernize building system and restore historic elements, carried out under the direction of Daniel P. Coffey and Associates, Ltd and A.T. Heinsbergen and Company. As part of the renovations, the building’s interior was reverted to its circa 1930s appearance, and the theater capacity was reduced to 3,600 seats. In 1994, another renovation replaced the 1949 marquee with a new one that was identical, with the old marquee being donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 2004. In 2004, the building was purchased by TheatreDreams Chicago, LLC, which sold it to Madison Square Garden Entertainment in 2007. The building today still hosts a variety of shows and live performances, being an anchor of Chicago’s historic downtown theater district, and a significant local landmark.
Shake Rattle and Read, a wonderful used book and music store, stands next door to the Uptown. the store has been there for over 40 years, and the owner told me about seeing shows at the Uptown before it closed in the '80s.
This is truly one of the saddest buildings I've ever seen. This 4000 seat theatre-turned-parking garage exists only as a shell of its former self.
I tried very hard to get in to see the inside, but was given a bit of a runaround by the security guards, who kept having me come back at some other time when some other person would be able to let me in. I never actually managed to connect with someone who'd bring me inside. Maybe it's just as well I didn't see the destruction first-hand.
This theatre's page at Cinema Treasures: cinematreasures.org/theater/1963/
The Five Flags Center was originally constructed in 1910 as the Majestic Theatre. It's an early design by Rapp and Rapp, nationally famous theatre architects.
This is truly one of the saddest buildings I've ever seen. This 4000 seat theatre-turned-parking garage exists only as a shell of its former self.
I tried very hard to get in to see the inside, but was given a bit of a runaround by the security guards, who kept having me come back at some other time when some other person would be able to let me in. I never actually managed to connect with someone who'd bring me inside. Maybe it's just as well I didn't see the destruction first-hand.
This theatre's page at Cinema Treasures: cinematreasures.org/theater/1963/
This theater was gutted and converted into offices and retail in the 60's. Today the bottom floor is used as a Hard Rock Cafe.
This is truly one of the saddest buildings I've ever seen. This 4000 seat theatre-turned-parking garage exists only as a shell of its former self.
I tried very hard to get in to see the inside, but was given a bit of a runaround by the security guards, who kept having me come back at some other time when some other person would be able to let me in. I never actually managed to connect with someone who'd bring me inside. Maybe it's just as well I didn't see the destruction first-hand.
This theatre's page at Cinema Treasures: cinematreasures.org/theater/1963/
Photograph by James Russiello - One of Loew's original five "wonder theaters" in New York City, "designed by the renowned firm of Rapp & Rapp, Kings Theatre opened in 1929 as Loew’s flagship theater. Its French Renaissance style architecture was inspired by the Palace of Versailles and the Paris Opera House. It features high, curved ceilings, ornate plaster walls, wood paneling, pink marble, and a glazed terra-cotta ornamental façade, making it a classic, early 20th century movie palace. The theater has been vacant since 1978." Restored by ACE Theatrical Group, LLC of Houston, Texas, a "firm specializing in historic restoration and theater operation, ACE will lease the theater from the City. ACE's many projects include the Boston Opera House, the Chicago Theatre and the Warner Theatre in Washington DC. ACE will host about 200 to 250 productions a year." History of the restoration: www.nycedc.com/project/kings-theatre
It took three days. The streetlights burned brightly the entire time, day and night.
Says here "Lindo" means "Lincoln-Douglas."
READ WITH ME the plot synopses of the eight movies:
• The Suicide Squad: Several convicts join a task force known as the "Suicide Squad" in exchange for lighter sentences, and are sent to a South American island nation to destroy a giant alien starfish before it falls into the local government's control.
• Don't Breathe 2: Unexpected secrets are exposed when organ thieves infiltrate a blind veteran's home and threaten a young girl he raises as his daughter.
• Respect: Jennifer Hudson portrays selected events in the life of young Aretha Franklin.
• Stillwater: An unemployed oil-rig worker from Oklahoma sets out with a French woman to prove his convicted daughter's innocence.
• Space Jam 2: After LeBron James's son is abducted by a rogue artificial intelligence (AI), he enlists the Looney Tunes' aid to win a basketball game against the AI''s avatars, in a Warner Bros.-themed virtual multiverse.
• Old: A group of people age rapidly on a secluded beach.
• Jungle Cruise: The captain of a small riverboat takes a scientist and her brother through a jungle in search of the Tree of Life while competing against a German expedition and Spanish conquistadors.
• Free Guy: A bank teller discovers that he is a non-player character in a massively multiplayer online game, and partners with a player to find evidence that a gaming company's CEO stole the source code of the player's game.
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In downtown Freeport, Illinois, on August 15th, 2021, the "Classic Cinemas Lindo Theatre" (opened in 1922, designed by Rapp and Rapp) on the east side of South Chicago Avenue, north of East Spring Street.
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The Art Deco Paramount Theatre open in 1931. The last movie was in 1979. The theater sat empty for ten years before renovation started. In 1991, the theater reopen as a performing arts center. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
This theater was gutted and converted into offices and retail in the 60's. Today the bottom floor is used as a Hard Rock Cafe.
Photograph by James Russiello - One of Loew's original five "wonder theaters" in New York City, "designed by the renowned firm of Rapp & Rapp, Kings Theatre opened in 1929 as Loew’s flagship theater. Its French Renaissance style architecture was inspired by the Palace of Versailles and the Paris Opera House. It features high, curved ceilings, ornate plaster walls, wood paneling, pink marble, and a glazed terra-cotta ornamental façade, making it a classic, early 20th century movie palace. The theater has been vacant since 1978." Restored by ACE Theatrical Group, LLC of Houston, Texas, a "firm specializing in historic restoration and theater operation, ACE will lease the theater from the City. ACE's many projects include the Boston Opera House, the Chicago Theatre and the Warner Theatre in Washington DC. ACE will host about 200 to 250 productions a year." History of the restoration: www.nycedc.com/project/kings-theatre
The Five Flags Center was originally constructed in 1910 as the Majestic Theatre. It's an early design by Rapp and Rapp, nationally famous theatre architects.
The Five Flags Center was originally constructed in 1910 as the Majestic Theatre. It's an early design by Rapp and Rapp, nationally famous theatre architects.
Photograph by James Russiello - One of Loew's original five "wonder theaters" in New York City, "designed by the renowned firm of Rapp & Rapp, Kings Theatre opened in 1929 as Loew’s flagship theater. Its French Renaissance style architecture was inspired by the Palace of Versailles and the Paris Opera House. It features high, curved ceilings, ornate plaster walls, wood paneling, pink marble, and a glazed terra-cotta ornamental façade, making it a classic, early 20th century movie palace. The theater has been vacant since 1978." Restored by ACE Theatrical Group, LLC of Houston, Texas, a "firm specializing in historic restoration and theater operation, ACE will lease the theater from the City. ACE's many projects include the Boston Opera House, the Chicago Theatre and the Warner Theatre in Washington DC. ACE will host about 200 to 250 productions a year." History of the restoration: www.nycedc.com/project/kings-theatre
The Five Flags Center was originally constructed in 1910 as the Majestic Theatre. It's an early design by Rapp and Rapp, nationally famous theatre architects.
Built in 1921, this French Renaissance Revival-style building was designed by Rapp and Rapp to house the Chicago Theatre, part of the Balaban and Katz chain to serve as their flagship theater, hosting movie screenings and live performances. The building originally housed a 3,880-seat auditorium, and was among the first movie palaces to be built in the United States, and is the oldest surviving example of a French Renaissance Revival or Neo-Baroque theater building in Chicago designed by Rapp and Rapp. The building hosted many notable live stage shows during its early history, with jazz performances being particularly popular in the early years.
The building’s large auditorium fills up the entire middle half of the block the building stands on, with a separate commercial building to the rear, along Wabash Street, and the historic Page Building, which was built to house offices on the upper floors and retail space on the ground floor, on the north side of the lobby wing along State Street. The exterior of the auditorium is rather plain, and is clad in brick with terra cotta trim at the bays that contain doors at street level, with a large vaulted roof over the auditorium and a separate, smaller, low-slope roof high above the stage house in the rear. The most ornate portion of the exterior is the facade of the lobby along State Street, which is clad in terra cotta with decorative reliefs, a large arched window with a circular panel containing stained glass, sculptures, cartouches, broken pediments, windows on the upper portion flanked by reliefs below an intricate cornice with dentist and rosettes, windows at the top of the facade with arched pediments and cartouches above them, stone panels at the base, a large and intricate marquee over the street, and a tall blade sign mounted in front of the north bay of the facade. The Page Building, which stands north of the lobby, features a brick facade with a curtain wall facade at the base with Chicago windows, paired one-over-one double-hung windows on the upper floors, cartouches above the end window bays and pilasters between the intermediate bays, and a cornice with modillions. Inside, the theater lobby is richly decorated with a grand staircase featuring a decorative metal balustrade, broken pediments richly trimmed with sculptural reliefs, cartouches, and garlands, paneled walls, decorative cornice trim on the ceilings, decorative columns, a vaulted ceiling, chandeliers, marble and carpet floors, marble cladding on the walls and columns immediately inside the front entrance, brass torchiere light fixtures on the balcony over the front entrance, and coffered ceilings over the balconies. The interior of the auditorium features a ceiling with a domed central section, decorative trim work on the ceiling, murals by artist Louis Grell around the edges of the ceiling, decorative sculptural reliefs, cartouches, and pediments on the walls, a Wurlitzer organ, box seats with half-domed hoods, engaged fluted corinthian columns, decorative balustrades and semi-circular balconies, arched bays on the walls ringing the balcony, a decorative and ornate proscenium arch that terminates in a mural at the top, decorative chandeliers, box seats beneath the balcony, and a vaulted ceiling under the main balcony.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, and was designated a Chicago Landmark in 1983. The theater went through a period of decline in the 1970s, which led to the building becoming host to live performances once again, after a period of functioning solely as a cinema that started in the 1950s. The theater and adjacent Page Building were purchased by the Chicago Theatre Preservation Group in 1984, and in 1985, due to no longer being viable as a cinema, the last first-run motion picture screening was held at the theater. The building was renovated in 1986 to modernize building system and restore historic elements, carried out under the direction of Daniel P. Coffey and Associates, Ltd and A.T. Heinsbergen and Company. As part of the renovations, the building’s interior was reverted to its circa 1930s appearance, and the theater capacity was reduced to 3,600 seats. In 1994, another renovation replaced the 1949 marquee with a new one that was identical, with the old marquee being donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 2004. In 2004, the building was purchased by TheatreDreams Chicago, LLC, which sold it to Madison Square Garden Entertainment in 2007. The building today still hosts a variety of shows and live performances, being an anchor of Chicago’s historic downtown theater district, and a significant local landmark.
I really liked the city of Royal Oak -- I'd never been there until today. It reminds me A LOT of Ann Arbor, just minus a bunch of obnoxious and pompous U of M students.
Rapp & Rapp, architects.
Opened in 1928.
Photograph by James Russiello - One of Loew's original five "wonder theaters" in New York City, "designed by the renowned firm of Rapp & Rapp, Kings Theatre opened in 1929 as Loew’s flagship theater. Its French Renaissance style architecture was inspired by the Palace of Versailles and the Paris Opera House. It features high, curved ceilings, ornate plaster walls, wood paneling, pink marble, and a glazed terra-cotta ornamental façade, making it a classic, early 20th century movie palace. The theater has been vacant since 1978." Restored by ACE Theatrical Group, LLC of Houston, Texas, a "firm specializing in historic restoration and theater operation, ACE will lease the theater from the City. ACE's many projects include the Boston Opera House, the Chicago Theatre and the Warner Theatre in Washington DC. ACE will host about 200 to 250 productions a year." History of the restoration: www.nycedc.com/project/kings-theatre
The Five Flags Center was originally constructed in 1910 as the Majestic Theatre. It's an early design by Rapp and Rapp, nationally famous theatre architects.
A close up look at the sign that stretches out over the sidewalk. The name of the theatre chain it belonged to, Balaban and Katz, is still partially visible.
Photograph by James Russiello - One of Loew's original five "wonder theaters" in New York City, "designed by the renowned firm of Rapp & Rapp, Kings Theatre opened in 1929 as Loew’s flagship theater. Its French Renaissance style architecture was inspired by the Palace of Versailles and the Paris Opera House. It features high, curved ceilings, ornate plaster walls, wood paneling, pink marble, and a glazed terra-cotta ornamental façade, making it a classic, early 20th century movie palace. The theater has been vacant since 1978." Restored by ACE Theatrical Group, LLC of Houston, Texas, a "firm specializing in historic restoration and theater operation, ACE will lease the theater from the City. ACE's many projects include the Boston Opera House, the Chicago Theatre and the Warner Theatre in Washington DC. ACE will host about 200 to 250 productions a year." History of the restoration: www.nycedc.com/project/kings-theatre