Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall

3711 Woodward Avenue,
Detroit, MI 48201

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Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on April 2, 2011 at 8:03 pm

Here is an illustrated article about Orchestra Hall in the August, 1920, issue of the professional journal Architecture. There are two photos, plus floor plans of four levels of the theater (scroll down.) There is also one photo of C. Howard Crane’s Grand Theatre in Pittsburgh. There are several additional photos of Orchestra Hall beginning on this page.

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CSWalczak
CSWalczak on December 22, 2009 at 10:35 pm

There are pictures of Detroit Orchestra Hall/Paradise Theater here, (which may have been originally pointed to in some of the earlier now dead links): View link

Chuck1231
Chuck1231 on December 22, 2009 at 10:21 pm

2009 photo of the Orchestra Hall courtesy of onasill.

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kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on December 31, 2008 at 4:19 pm

From Boxoffice magazine, October 1947:

DETROIT-The Paradise Theater will reopen October 10 featuring Count Basie and Pearl Bailey. The house will continue its successful policy of playing colored star names with class B pictures on a first run basis. Upcoming bookings include Cab Calloway, October 17; Duke Ellington, October 24; Illinois Jacquet, October 31; Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald, November 14; and Erskine Hawkins and Arnett Cobb, November 21.

Chuck1231
Chuck1231 on August 21, 2005 at 5:41 am

Some vintage photos of the Paradise Theatre.
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btkrefft
btkrefft on December 27, 2004 at 6:33 pm

Actually, Crane designed his first theatre in Detroit in 1911, the Columbia, for John Kunsky. A couple of his other Kunsky theatres pre-date Orchestra Hall, including the Adams and Madison (both 1917). The Garden/Sassy Cat, Majestic, Fine Arts, Strand, and Alhambra in Detroit all are at least a couple years older than Orchestra Hall as well.

sdoerr
sdoerr on December 27, 2004 at 6:17 pm

This was Crane’s first theater he designed.

sdoerr
sdoerr on July 23, 2004 at 2:10 am

A fully restored and modernized Orchestra Hall debuted with the grand opening of the Max M. Fisher Music Center on October 11, 2003.
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