Beach Theatre
1504 E. 51st Street,
Chicago,
IL
60615
1504 E. 51st Street,
Chicago,
IL
60615
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Architects: Felix M. Bernham, Henry L. Newhouse
Firms: Newhouse & Bernham
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This early Hyde Park neighborhood house opened on May 30, 1914 with Maurice Costello in “Mr. Barnes of New York”. After closing as a movie house in 1921, it was converted into a bank. The building has since been demolished and a parking lot occupies the site today.
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From the Chicago Tribune, 12/17/22:
HYDE PARK TO HAVE ITS FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Syndicate Buys Beach Theater: $100,000.
Hyde Park is to have its first national bank. The Beach Theater building at the northeast corner of Harper avenue and Hyde Park boulevard, directly across from the Hyde Park hotel, was sold yesterday.
The records of the American Terra Cotta Company indicate that the Beach Theatre was designed by the architectural firm of Newhouse & Bernham (Felix M. Bernham. I believe that Bernham has sometimes been conflated with Daniel Burnham, a much better known Chicago architect of the period.)
Grand opening ad posted.
This is actually the parking lot for Kenwood Academy High School.