Victoria Theater
913 Market Street,
Philadelphia,
PA
19107
913 Market Street,
Philadelphia,
PA
19107
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The Victoria Theater opened in 1909 as the Nicklette Theater. The architects were Stearns and Castor.
The Victoria Theater closed in 1949 and was demolished in 1950.
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There is a small photo of the Victoria Theater here:
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The Victoria theatre was operated by Siegmund Lubin and featured his Philadelphia based studios motion pictures as well as vaudeville. The monumental triumphal-arch facade was 6 stories high and dominated the block in the heart of the Market Street retail district.
A Wurlitzer theater organ opus 1157 style “H” special was installed in the Victoria Theater on 9/17/1925.
Here is an undated photo:
http://tinyurl.com/2n3pgu
Thats the same photo as on the PAB website. Are these photos from the Irvin R. Glazer Theater Collection?
Here is a better look at the exterior photo, from the Glazer collection:
http://tinyurl.com/ykgrsxq
The description notes that the architects were Stearns & Castor.
In addition to the Victoria, Stearns & Castor (George R. Stearns and Horace W. Castor) designed the similar Eureka Theatre, at Market and 40th, sometime before the firm was dissolved in 1916. I don’t know if the Eureka is listed at Cinema Treasures under some later name or not. If it’s listed, it’s missing the aka Eureka.
Photos and floor plans of both the the Victoria and the Eureka, along with two other theaters by different architects, illustrate an article about movie theaters in a 1915 issue of The Architectural Record.
Ken Roe recently added the Eureka: /theaters/33645/
So few comments on what looked like a grand theatre in its day.