Victoria Theater
913 Market Street,
Philadelphia,
PA
19107
913 Market Street,
Philadelphia,
PA
19107
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Additional Info
Previously operated by: Warner Bros. Circuit Management Corp.
Architects: Horace William Castor, George R. Stearns
Firms: Stearns & Castor
Previous Names: Nicklette Theater
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The Victoria Theater opened in 1909 as the Nicklette Theater. The architects were Stearns and Castor. By 1941 it was operated by Warner Bros. Circuit Management Corp.
The Victoria Theater closed in 1949 and was demolished in 1950.
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Here is an undated photo:
http://tinyurl.com/2n3pgu
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.
The Victoria Theatre’s site later had a York store, and the entire block was replaced in 1974-77 by The Gallery and the newer Gimbels Department Store.