This web page about a Bucyrus Community Theatre is about this house. It says that the theater was built in the Art Deco style in 1936, and is now being restored after having been long vacant. Several web sites note that the Schine circuit opened the Bucyrus Theatre on February 14, 1936.
This article from early 2011, about a roofing job donated to the theater, mentions the theater having suffered a fire in 1991, after which it never reopened.
This single web page is as close to an official web site as I can find. It solicits contributions for the ongoing restoration project.
A Nixon Theatre in New Castle was listed in the 1906-1907 edition of Julius Cahn’s guide as a first-floor house with 1,800 seats. This house was part of the Nixon & Zimmerman chain, which operated first-class theaters for touring companies in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio.
I don’t find the Nixon listed in later Cahn guides, though. Instead, there is a theater listed as the Opera House, with fewer than 1,100 seats. A New Castle theater called the New Opera House is on a list of Cahn-affiliated houses published in the December 5, 1908, issue of em>The Billboard.
But the Nixon was still in existence in 1913. This web page, which is mostly about a murder that was committed in New Castle 1905, mentions a meeting of spiritualists that took place at the Nixon Theatre on February 2, 1913.
The Austin Theatre was listed at the above address in the 1919 Chicago Daily News Almanac and Yearbook, which has a copyright date of 1918, so this theater must date from the 1910s.
Harkins Chandler Crossroads 12 was one of the multiplexes designed for the chain by Level4 Studios. Prior to the founding of Level4, partner Tim Ward was half owner of D&L Architects & Associates, which had also designed several projects for Harkins. Before that, he spent some years with United Artists Theatres, first as field project manager and later as director of design.
Harkins Prescott Valley 14 was one of several multiplexes designed for the chain by D&L Architects & Associates, a firm half owned by architect Tim S. Ward. In 2005, Ward founded Level4 Studio with partner Nik Perkovich, and that firm also designed some theaters for Harkins.
Harkins North Valley 16 was one of several multiplexes designed for the chain by D&L Architects & Associates, a firm half owned by architect Tim S. Ward. In 2005, Ward founded Level4 Studio with partner Nik Perkovich, and that firm also designed some theaters for Harkins.
The Level4 Studio web site has gone missing. Although a number of Harkins Theatres projects were featured in the firm’s online portfolio, it appears that most of them were designed before Tim Ward and Nik Perkovichi founded the firm. Before Level4 was founded, Tim Ward was half-owner of another firm, D&L Architects & Associates, and the Harkins theaters opened prior to 2005 that are attributed to Level4 should probably be attributed to D&L Architects, even though they were featured on Level4’s web site. As the Gateway Pavilions was opened in November, 2002, it is one of those projects.
The Level4 Studio web site has gone missing. Although a number of Harkins Theatres projects were featured in the firm’s online portfolio, it appears that most of them were designed before Tim Ward and Nik Perkovichi founded the firm. Before Level4 was founded, Tim Ward was half-owner of another firm, D&L Architects & Associates, and the Harkins theaters opened prior to 2005 that are attributed to Level4 should probably be attributed to D&L Architects, even though they were featured on Level4’s web site. As it opened in May, 2000, Harkins Arrowhead Fountains 18 is one of those projects.
The Level4 Studio web site has gone missing. Although a number of Harkins Theatres projects were featured in the firm’s online portfolio, it appears that most of them were designed before Tim Ward and Nik Perkovichi founded the firm. Before Level4 was founded, Tim Ward was half-owner of another firm, D&L Architects & Associates, and the Harkins theaters opened prior to 2005 that are attributed to Level4 should probably be attributed to D&L Architects, even though they were featured on Level4’s web site. As it opened in 2001, Harkins Chandler Fashion Center 20 is one of those projects.
Part of the introduction puzzles me. I don’t see how Pierre L'Enfant, who lived from 1754 to 1825, could have designed a company town in Illinois in 1901. This history of Zeigler says the town was planned by engineer L. V. Rice, working for the Chicago engineering firm Robert W. Hunt & Company.
This article from the Schenectady Daily Gazette gives a brief history of the Van Curler Theatre. The theater opened as the Van Curler Opera House on March 1, 1893. In its later years it operated as a movie house as well as a vaudeville and burlesque theater. The Van Curler Theatre had been closed for several years when the auditorium was demolished in 1943. The entrance building was demolished eight years later.
The theater was not located on Van Curler Street, but in downtown Schenectady on Jay Street at the corner of Franklin Street. The article has two photos. The front of the theater was a typically Victorian assemblage of Moorish and Classical elements with a Queen Anne style tower of bay windows and belfry stuck onto one corner.
Sassyrey1: The Star Theatre is currently closed. As of November, 2012, it was owned by a bank which had foreclosed on it, according to posts on this weblog.
Scroll down to the second illustration on this web page to see the original appearance of the Music Hall, as it was called from its opening in 1887 until 1900. The massive Romanesque Revival pile was designed by Richard Alfred Waite.
This page has a photo of the auditorium as originally designed, strikingly different from the Streamline Modern interior created in its 1946 rebuilding as Shea’s Teck Theatre (which, according to this earlier comment by roberttoplin, was designed by architect B. Frank Kelly with interiors by Theodore P. Vandercoy.) The building fronting the auditorium was apparently also replaced at that time.
Judging from the interior photos linked earlier, I’d have guessed that the Star Theatre had at least 600 seats. The side section in this photo shows at least 28 rows with six seats per row, so the two side sections alone must have seated over 300, and the center section was probably about the size of the two side sections put together. Perhaps they removed every other row sometime late in the theater’s history.
The building in the photo Chuck linked to doesn’t look big enough to have held 332 seats, but it looks old enough to have been around in 1916. The March 18, 1916, issue of The Moving Picture World said that a 250-seat movie house called the Meteor Theatre had opened at Sand Springs on January 8. Could the Meteor and the Harmony have been the same theater?
This web page has an article by Linda Kirkpatrick with considerable information about the Canyon Theatre, and a couple of photos. The Canyon Theatre was built in the early 1940s, but the article doesn’t give the date of closing.
Here is the Acme Theatre’s page at DocSouth’s Going to the Show collection. It operated from about 1914 to about 1928, and must have always been called the Acme.
vbridgers is correct. Now that we have a photo of the Wayne Theatre, it clearly was not in the old Acme building at all, but in the building that housed the Center Theatre and later the Variety Theatre.
A Three Stooges movie party hosted at the Circle Theatre by a local television personality rated an article with photo in the November 11, 1963, issue of Boxoffice.
Linkrot repair: A brief item about the opening of E.M. Loew’s West End Cinema appeared in Boxoffice of November 11, 1963 (lower right). The architect for the remodeling of the old Lancaster Theatre into the West End Cinema was William Riseman.
I’ve found a reference to the Grand Theatre in Massillon operating as early as 1923.
If the spelling of the town’s name is corrected (it takes a double “s”), this house will be able to join its companions.
This web page about a Bucyrus Community Theatre is about this house. It says that the theater was built in the Art Deco style in 1936, and is now being restored after having been long vacant. Several web sites note that the Schine circuit opened the Bucyrus Theatre on February 14, 1936.
This article from early 2011, about a roofing job donated to the theater, mentions the theater having suffered a fire in 1991, after which it never reopened.
This single web page is as close to an official web site as I can find. It solicits contributions for the ongoing restoration project.
Linkrot repair: here is a fresh link to the 1937 Boxoffice article, with photo, about the Community Theatre in Toms River.
A Nixon Theatre in New Castle was listed in the 1906-1907 edition of Julius Cahn’s guide as a first-floor house with 1,800 seats. This house was part of the Nixon & Zimmerman chain, which operated first-class theaters for touring companies in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio.
I don’t find the Nixon listed in later Cahn guides, though. Instead, there is a theater listed as the Opera House, with fewer than 1,100 seats. A New Castle theater called the New Opera House is on a list of Cahn-affiliated houses published in the December 5, 1908, issue of em>The Billboard.
But the Nixon was still in existence in 1913. This web page, which is mostly about a murder that was committed in New Castle 1905, mentions a meeting of spiritualists that took place at the Nixon Theatre on February 2, 1913.
The Austin Theatre was listed at the above address in the 1919 Chicago Daily News Almanac and Yearbook, which has a copyright date of 1918, so this theater must date from the 1910s.
Harkins Chandler Crossroads 12 was one of the multiplexes designed for the chain by Level4 Studios. Prior to the founding of Level4, partner Tim Ward was half owner of D&L Architects & Associates, which had also designed several projects for Harkins. Before that, he spent some years with United Artists Theatres, first as field project manager and later as director of design.
Harkins Prescott Valley 14 was one of several multiplexes designed for the chain by D&L Architects & Associates, a firm half owned by architect Tim S. Ward. In 2005, Ward founded Level4 Studio with partner Nik Perkovich, and that firm also designed some theaters for Harkins.
Harkins North Valley 16 was one of several multiplexes designed for the chain by D&L Architects & Associates, a firm half owned by architect Tim S. Ward. In 2005, Ward founded Level4 Studio with partner Nik Perkovich, and that firm also designed some theaters for Harkins.
The Level4 Studio web site has gone missing. Although a number of Harkins Theatres projects were featured in the firm’s online portfolio, it appears that most of them were designed before Tim Ward and Nik Perkovichi founded the firm. Before Level4 was founded, Tim Ward was half-owner of another firm, D&L Architects & Associates, and the Harkins theaters opened prior to 2005 that are attributed to Level4 should probably be attributed to D&L Architects, even though they were featured on Level4’s web site. As the Gateway Pavilions was opened in November, 2002, it is one of those projects.
The Level4 Studio web site has gone missing. Although a number of Harkins Theatres projects were featured in the firm’s online portfolio, it appears that most of them were designed before Tim Ward and Nik Perkovichi founded the firm. Before Level4 was founded, Tim Ward was half-owner of another firm, D&L Architects & Associates, and the Harkins theaters opened prior to 2005 that are attributed to Level4 should probably be attributed to D&L Architects, even though they were featured on Level4’s web site. As it opened in May, 2000, Harkins Arrowhead Fountains 18 is one of those projects.
The Level4 Studio web site has gone missing. Although a number of Harkins Theatres projects were featured in the firm’s online portfolio, it appears that most of them were designed before Tim Ward and Nik Perkovichi founded the firm. Before Level4 was founded, Tim Ward was half-owner of another firm, D&L Architects & Associates, and the Harkins theaters opened prior to 2005 that are attributed to Level4 should probably be attributed to D&L Architects, even though they were featured on Level4’s web site. As it opened in 2001, Harkins Chandler Fashion Center 20 is one of those projects.
Part of the introduction puzzles me. I don’t see how Pierre L'Enfant, who lived from 1754 to 1825, could have designed a company town in Illinois in 1901. This history of Zeigler says the town was planned by engineer L. V. Rice, working for the Chicago engineering firm Robert W. Hunt & Company.
This article from the Schenectady Daily Gazette gives a brief history of the Van Curler Theatre. The theater opened as the Van Curler Opera House on March 1, 1893. In its later years it operated as a movie house as well as a vaudeville and burlesque theater. The Van Curler Theatre had been closed for several years when the auditorium was demolished in 1943. The entrance building was demolished eight years later.
The theater was not located on Van Curler Street, but in downtown Schenectady on Jay Street at the corner of Franklin Street. The article has two photos. The front of the theater was a typically Victorian assemblage of Moorish and Classical elements with a Queen Anne style tower of bay windows and belfry stuck onto one corner.
Sassyrey1: The Star Theatre is currently closed. As of November, 2012, it was owned by a bank which had foreclosed on it, according to posts on this weblog.
The 1922 Hamilton City Directory listed the Princess Theatre at 108-10 James Street North.
Scroll down to the second illustration on this web page to see the original appearance of the Music Hall, as it was called from its opening in 1887 until 1900. The massive Romanesque Revival pile was designed by Richard Alfred Waite.
This page has a photo of the auditorium as originally designed, strikingly different from the Streamline Modern interior created in its 1946 rebuilding as Shea’s Teck Theatre (which, according to this earlier comment by roberttoplin, was designed by architect B. Frank Kelly with interiors by Theodore P. Vandercoy.) The building fronting the auditorium was apparently also replaced at that time.
Judging from the interior photos linked earlier, I’d have guessed that the Star Theatre had at least 600 seats. The side section in this photo shows at least 28 rows with six seats per row, so the two side sections alone must have seated over 300, and the center section was probably about the size of the two side sections put together. Perhaps they removed every other row sometime late in the theater’s history.
The building in the photo Chuck linked to doesn’t look big enough to have held 332 seats, but it looks old enough to have been around in 1916. The March 18, 1916, issue of The Moving Picture World said that a 250-seat movie house called the Meteor Theatre had opened at Sand Springs on January 8. Could the Meteor and the Harmony have been the same theater?
This web page has an article by Linda Kirkpatrick with considerable information about the Canyon Theatre, and a couple of photos. The Canyon Theatre was built in the early 1940s, but the article doesn’t give the date of closing.
One error in the introduction- Lyndon Golin’s brother is named Andrew, not Michael.
A ShowTime Magazine profile of Lyndon Golin is online here.
This house was called the Wayne Theatre by 1939, the year Ralph Harold Ward became its manager, according to his obituary, published in 2008.
Here is the Acme Theatre’s page at DocSouth’s Going to the Show collection. It operated from about 1914 to about 1928, and must have always been called the Acme.
vbridgers is correct. Now that we have a photo of the Wayne Theatre, it clearly was not in the old Acme building at all, but in the building that housed the Center Theatre and later the Variety Theatre.
A Three Stooges movie party hosted at the Circle Theatre by a local television personality rated an article with photo in the November 11, 1963, issue of Boxoffice.
Linkrot repair: A brief item about the opening of E.M. Loew’s West End Cinema appeared in Boxoffice of November 11, 1963 (lower right). The architect for the remodeling of the old Lancaster Theatre into the West End Cinema was William Riseman.