Archer Theatre
2008 W. 35th Street,
Chicago,
IL
60609
2008 W. 35th Street,
Chicago,
IL
60609
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I think the mapping problem is due to it being listed as 2008-10 instead of 2008-2010.
I remember noticing that theatre on Archer before. I’m surprised I never put the two together.
Broan: The Grand Theatre you found mentioned in 1912 might have been the unnamed house that was under construction in 1910 at 3512-14-18 Archer, according to an item in The American Contractor of July 3, 1910. It was designed by architect George O. Garnsey. 3514 Archer now houses an auto and truck garage called Mike’s Services, but it is clearly an old building. The top of a stage house is visible in Google Street View. This theater is not yet listed at Cinema Treasures.
Also, the Archer has not been demolished. The front has been remodeled, but you can still see the brick side and rear walls of the theater in Google Street View along the block of Damen north of 35th. There is a stage house, so it probably hosted vaudeville as well as movies in its early years.
Google Maps has put this Henry Newhouse-designed theater in the wrong neighborhood. The actual location of 2010 W. 35th Street is between Damen and Archer Avenues, about two and a half miles mile west of where Google has placed its pin icon.
The Archer Theatre was under construction when this notice was published in the September 3, 1910, issue of The American Contractor: “Theater & 2-Store Building (class 4. 1100 seating cap.): 1 sty. 75x125. $40,000. W. 35th st. & Archer av. Architect Henry L. Newhouse, 4630 Prairie av. Owner Archer Amusement Association, care architect. Plastering let to Chas. Seaberg, 1302 Addison st. Up to second story.”
This was in Mc Kinley Park, not Bridgeport. Bridgeport is east of Ashland and this is on Damen.
An article in the Chicago Tribune, dated May 20, 1917 says that the Archer, along with the Boulevard and Halfield Theatres, all Schoenstadt movie houses, are being leased by Mrs. Leonore Van Ronkel (the headline reads “WOMAN LEASES THREE SOUTH SIDE THEATERS”). The Archer and Boulevard Theatres are being leased for ten years, while the Halfield is being leased for five years. The Archer Theatre Building is listed as containing two stores in addition to the theater itself.
The earliest references I can find to the Archer in the Tribune are in January 1914. I do see a Grand Theater at 35th and Archer in 1912.
This theatre is now i think a resturant sulpy store,on the front of the store if you look close you can see the theatre outline of whare the marquee was and whare the doors and the ticket booth stood.