Marshfield Theater
1650 W. Roosevelt Road,
Chicago,
IL
60608
1650 W. Roosevelt Road,
Chicago,
IL
60608
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This small Near West Side theater, seating just under 300, was designed by architect Alexander Levy in 1910. It was located on Roosevelt Road, between Ashland Avenue and Paulina Street, near the present-day Chicago campus of the University of Illinois.
During the 20s, the Marks Brothers circuit operated the Marshfield.
After closing as a movie house, the former Marshfield was converted into a community center, which it served as much longer than it did a theater.
It was razed in the early-to-mid 90s, and a parking lot for a strip mall is on the site of the theater today.
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Bryan Krefft
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The Marshfield was designed by Alexander Levy according to the building permit index.
In 1910
Any connection with the Marshall Fields department store?
Ken, from the Chicago History Museum:
“Named by Henry Gilpin subdivider in 1869.
Land was a marsh or swamp and named after Marshfield, Mass.”
Marshfield Avenue is a block or so north of the former site of the theater.
Fair enough. I know the department store is, or was, a big deal in Chicago and I thought there might some relationship.
Was this one of the theatres operated by O. T. Crawford, of St. Louis, in the early 19-teens?