TivFan: The landmark I use for the odd-numbered side of the 1200 block of Market is the tall building with several floors of bay windows (occupied by Boyd’s in the 1960 photo.) The Savoy was two doors east of that building, and the Bijou Dream was three doors farther east, as can be seen in this slightly larger version of the 1907 photo CSWalczak linked to. The Bijou had been gone for about three decades when the Savoy closed in the late 1940s and was replaced by Hanover Shoes.
The white-fronted building across the street in 1907 looks like it was on or next to the site of the Palace Theatre, which was built at 1214-1216 W.Market in 1908. In 1931, all the buildings between the Palace and 12th Street were demolished to make way for the PSFS building. One of the last photos of them is this one, which shows the Palace at right. A 1949 photo of the PSFS building here shows the Palace after it was remodeled (this photo is mis-captioned by Philly History as being the northeast corner of 12th and Market. It is actually the southwest corner.)
This page has several thumbnail photos of the Palace, but you can’t see the full sized versions unless you are a subscriber to Philadelphia Architects and Buildings. Is the colorized postcard they display the same one you have? (I’m not a subscriber and I can’t make out much detail from the thumbnail.)
TivFan: Check this photo of buildings in the 1200 block of Market Street in 1930. At 1213 is the Savoy Theatre, but I think the building you are talking about was on the lot at far left, which was probably 1219 Market. As of 1930, it looks like the building had either had some floors added, or had been replaced by a new building. Whatever theater had been on that site was gone by 1930, and was probably probably gone quite a bit earlier.
By 1932, the building had either been remodeled or replaced, and housed Richman Brothers Clothes, as seen in this photo.
My notes say that the Crescent Theatre operated at 451 S. Salina Street from 1909 to 1928. It was built and originally operated by the Cahill brothers. In 1916 it became part of the Keith vaudeville circuit for a while. A Marr & Colton organ was installed in 1920.
Girard: A Canal Town History, by Geoffrey L. Domowicz, says that the Denman Theatre is located on Main Street, though it doesn’t provide an address. It also uses the present tense in giving the location, but I was unable to spot the building using Google Street View. Maybe somebody else will have better luck.
The theater was apparently named for actor Thompson Denman, who was born in Girard in 1833. He died in 1911, after having spent much of his career playing the lead in a play he commissioned called The Old Homestead.
An ad in a 1927 issue of Publisher’s Weekly lists a book store called the Little Shop located in the Denman Theatre building, so it was open at least that early.
Architect George Eichenlaub penned at least two articles about his “Standard” theater designs for Boxoffice predecessor Motion Picture Times. One in the January 14, 1930, issue describes and illustrates a 500-seat house, which is probably the model the Denman followed. The article begins at this link and continues on this page.
Eichenlaub’s February 11, 1930, article about 750 seat theaters can be seen at this link.
The 1908-1909 edition of Julius Cahn’s Official Theatrical Guide lists the Lyceum Theatre at Smethport as a ground floor house with 710 seats.
The Lyceum apparently opened in 1904, not 1906. The entry for St. Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic Church in a tour book of Smethport says that the church building burned just before Christmas, 1904, and that the Christmas Mass that year was held at the newly-constructed Lyceum Theatre.
A list of corporations chartered in Pennsylvania in 1902 includes the Smethport Lyceum Company, incorporated on November 14 for the purpose of building and operating an opera house at Smethport.
After WWI, the building was bought by the American Legion, and it is mentioned in various publications of the 1920s and 1930s as the Legion Lyceum. I haven’t found any indication that the house ever operated on a regular basis as a movie theater. Our page for the Star Theatre, Smethport’s other theater, says that it opened in 1906 as the Kerr Moving Picture House. With 410 seats, it was probably sufficient to this small town’s demand for movies.
It’s possible that the Florida Theatre was the new house mentioned in the November 16, 1925, issue of The Film Daily:
“Construction work on Haines City’s new $100,000 theater has begun. The architect is R. A. Benjamin, of Jacksonville.”
Haines City’s other early theater, the Mar-Lea, was already in operation in 1925, and a photo of it shows that it was a fairly small house that was very unlikely to have cost $100,000.
A 1917 volume called The Pictorial History of Fort Wayne Indiana, by Joseph Griswold, has a paragraph about the Palace Theatre as part of a brief biography of Frank E. Stouder:
“1913 Mr. Stouder organized what is now the Palace Theater Company and instituted the erection of this theater, which was formally opened to the public on January 25, 1915, and it has gained recognition as one of the most modern and attractive theaters in the middle west. It is conceded to be the finest house devoted to vaudeville entertainment in the entire state of Indiana, and the building was erected and equipped at a cost of two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. It is of thoroughly fireproof construction, has a seating capacity of two thousand, has the most approved appointments for lighting, heating and ventilating and the general equipment of the stage and general auditorium is of thoroughly metropolitan order, the house having been designed by C. W. and G. L. Rapp, the celebrated theater architects, of Chicago. In presenting the attractions of the unrivaled Keith vaudeville circuit this beautiful house has not been denied the full measure of popular approval and support, and it has added much to the metropolitan prestige of Fort Wayne.”
In partnership with Byron H. Barnett, Frank Stouder had earlier operated two other Fort Wayne houses; the Temple Theatre, beginning in 1894, and the Lyric Theatre, beginning in 1910. Stouder and Barnett disposed of their interests in both houses in 1915, to concentrate on operating the Palace.
Photos of the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas can be seen on this page at the web site of ELS Architecture and Urban Design, the Berkeley firm that designed the renovation. D.Jamie Rusin was the principal architect for the project.
Previously, ELS has been involved in several restoration and adaptive reuse projects at historic theaters. The include the conversion of the Portland Theatre, Portland, Oregon, into the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall; the expansion and restoration of the California Theatre in San Jose; the restoration of the Fox Theatre in Oakland; and the expansion and restoration of the Grand Theatre at Tracy, California, for the Grand Theatre Center for the Arts.
Photos of the restored California Theatre can be seen on this page at the web site of ELS Architecture and Urban Design, the firm that handled the renovation project. The project included an entirely new stage tower and two new buildings to augment the theater’s production space and public areas. The web page has a plan of the ground floor showing the changes.
ELS also designed restoration projects for the Portland Theatre in Portland, Oregon, now Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall; The Fox Oakland Theatre; the restoration of the Grand Theatre at Tracy, California, as part of the Grand Theatre Center for the Arts; and the recent renovation of the former AMC Kabuki multiplex in San Francisco for Sundance Cinemas.
This article about the restoration of the Fox Oakland Theatre is by Kurt Schindler, principal of ELS Architecture and Urban Design, the Berkeley firm that did the plans for the renovation of the theater.
The firm’s web site also offers this page with several photos of the Fox.
In addition to the Fox, ELS has designed the restorations of the Grand Theatre in Tracy, California, the California Theatre in San Jose, and the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, formerly the Portland Theatre, in Portland, Oregon. More recently, ELS handled the renovation of the old AMC Kabuki multiplex for Sundance Cinemas.
Photos of the Grand Theatre Center, including some shots of the renovated auditorium, run as a slide show on this page at the web site of ELS Architecture and Urban Design, the firm that designed the renovation. Kurt Schindler was the principal architect of the project.
The Grand Theatre now seats 560, and features continental seating on the main floor. Other restoration and adaptive reuse projects designed by ELS include the California Theatre in San Jose, the Fox Theatre in Oakland, and the former Portland Theatre, now Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, in Portland, Oregon.
Eleven theaters, including the Globe, are listed in the neighborhood theater guide in the January 17, 1928, issue of the Syracuse Journal. Here is a scan of the page at Google Documents.
Smalley’s Oxford Theatre first appears in 1937 in this finding aid to the records of Smalley’s Theatres held by the New York State Historical Association. That is most likely the year it was built.
Smalley’s Johnstown Theatre was built in 1928 on the site of the Grand Theatre, which burned early that year.
The obituary of Hazel Smalley, widow of William Smalley, was published in the February 5, 1969, issue of the Leader-Herald newspaper. It said that Smalley’s Johnstown Theatre had been renamed the Towne Theatre in 1960.
Most references to this Mission style house, opened in 1926, call it the Roland Courts or Roland Court Theatre, but the vertical sign seen in this ca.1945 photo says only Roland. I thinkt he small sign under the vertical says “2 Big Films”, but it’s a bit blurry so I couldn’t swear to it.
Video of a 2010 WVEC news report about the demolition, which includes a couple of vintage photos, can currently still be seen at this link.
A 1916 ad for the Casino Theatre on this web page gives its location as “One Half Block North of Siloam.” As near as I can figure, Siloam refers to Siloam Spring. A facility called the Hall of Waters was built at Siloam Spring in the 1930s, and today houses city offices, a visitors center, and a museum. It is on the south side of Broadway opposite the end of Elizabeth Street. This makes me think that perhaps the Siloam Theatre was the Casino Theatre, renamed.
Odd numbers are on the east sides of north-south streets in Excelsior Springs, so the Siloam Theatre would have been on the right side of Elizabeth Street as you go north from Broadway.
Despite the name on the marquee, this house still goes by the name Gordon Square Theatre, to differentiate it from the adjacent James Levin Theatre, also part of the Cleveland Public Theatre complex. The Gordon Square Theatre in its current configuration has 300 seats, and the Levin has 150.
The Cleveland Landmarks Commission attributes the design of the Gordon Square Theatre to architect George Allen Grieble, who also designed the Alhambra Theatre, the Olympia Theatre, and (possibly) the Penn Square Theatre, all between 1911 and 1913. However, an item in the November 3, 1917, issue of The Moving Picture World attributes the house to Arthur C. Yost. The item says:
“Arthur C. Yost, of the firm of Richardson and Yost, Cleveland theater architects, is enjoying a few weeks' rest after his strenuous six years building theaters in Ohio. Mr. Yost planned the Liberty, Mall, Gordon Square, Knickerbocker, Olympic, and other large theaters of Cleveland, and the Pastime, Akron and the Alhambra, Cuyahoga Falls.”
The Landmarks Commission attributes only one theater to the firm of Richardson & Yost, that being a 1914 house at 15511 Waterloo Road. The Landmarks Commission page doesn’t give the theater’s name, but it is the house that opened as the Keystone Theatre and later became the Abbey Theatre.
I’m not sure what to make of these conflicting claims. Very little information is available on the Internet about either Grieble or Yost, and the landmarks commission doesn’t cite sources for its attribution of the Gordon Square Theatre to Grieble. Clearing this up will likely require research in publications not available on the Internet, which means somebody with access to the Cleveland Public Library will probably have to do it.
The Liberty Theatre was established by Judson Herbert Ferguson, according to his biography in volume 2 of History of Oregon, by Charles Henry Carey. It probably opened before 1913, in which year it was called the Electric Theatre. It was in 1913 that Arthur Kolstad arrived in Hood River to take over management of the town’s two movie theaters, the other being the Gem at 103 Oak Street.
This house was still called the Electric Theatre in the 1917 City Directory, and must have been renamed the Liberty later that year, when the United States entered the World War.
In 1921, Ferguson and Kolstad built the Rialto Theatre, Hood River’s largest movie house, at 406 Oak Street. The Gem apparently closed at that time. This house continued to operate as the Liberty Theatre at least as late as 1928. I’ve been unable to discover when it was renamed the Cascadia.
Considerable biographical information about Arthur Kolstad can be found in the NRHP registration form for Cliff Lodge, which he once owned. It is available as a PDF at this link. A Google Documents version can be read online at this link.
This house opened as Ye Liberty Theater on February 22, 1912, with 1,600 seats. The original operator, Young Chun, was involved in a lawsuit which is recorded in legal journals of the time.
The seating capacity is found in various editions of All About Hawaii, an annual publication of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. The house was still listed in the book as Ye Liberty Theater at least as late as 1921.
The Alhambra Theatre originally opened on December 21, 1907, according to that day’s issue of the Utica Herald Dispatch. The building, owned by the Lux Brothers, had previously been occupied by Lux & Sons Washington Market. I still haven’t been able to discover if whether the Alhambra Theatre of 1915 was entirely new construction or a rebuilding of this earlier structure.
During the years 1918 and 1919, the Geneva Daily Times carries ads for the Regent and Temple Theatres and for a vaudeville and movie house called the Strand Theatre, but I find no mentions of the opera house during that time. The ads for the Strand vanish by 1920, and the Smith Opera House reappears. I wonder if they were the same theater?
The Temple Theatre opened on January 20, 1912, according to Ranjit Sandhu’s list of the works of Leon H. Lempert & Son. Sandhu doesn’t attribute the original design to any architect, but cites an item in the June 21, 1913, issue of American Contractor saying that Leon Lempert Jr., was the architect for a stage that was being added to the house.
It’s possible that Lempert was also the original architect for the Temple Theatre. The lack of attribution simply means that Sandhu was unable to find one in publications from the period. I haven’t found one either.
This colorized postcard is probably later than the one we currently display. It shows that a marquee had been added to the building, glass doors had been put in place to create a vestibule, and a colorful fan light had been installed in the arch above the entrance.
TivFan: The landmark I use for the odd-numbered side of the 1200 block of Market is the tall building with several floors of bay windows (occupied by Boyd’s in the 1960 photo.) The Savoy was two doors east of that building, and the Bijou Dream was three doors farther east, as can be seen in this slightly larger version of the 1907 photo CSWalczak linked to. The Bijou had been gone for about three decades when the Savoy closed in the late 1940s and was replaced by Hanover Shoes.
The white-fronted building across the street in 1907 looks like it was on or next to the site of the Palace Theatre, which was built at 1214-1216 W.Market in 1908. In 1931, all the buildings between the Palace and 12th Street were demolished to make way for the PSFS building. One of the last photos of them is this one, which shows the Palace at right. A 1949 photo of the PSFS building here shows the Palace after it was remodeled (this photo is mis-captioned by Philly History as being the northeast corner of 12th and Market. It is actually the southwest corner.)
This page has several thumbnail photos of the Palace, but you can’t see the full sized versions unless you are a subscriber to Philadelphia Architects and Buildings. Is the colorized postcard they display the same one you have? (I’m not a subscriber and I can’t make out much detail from the thumbnail.)
TivFan: Check this photo of buildings in the 1200 block of Market Street in 1930. At 1213 is the Savoy Theatre, but I think the building you are talking about was on the lot at far left, which was probably 1219 Market. As of 1930, it looks like the building had either had some floors added, or had been replaced by a new building. Whatever theater had been on that site was gone by 1930, and was probably probably gone quite a bit earlier.
By 1932, the building had either been remodeled or replaced, and housed Richman Brothers Clothes, as seen in this photo.
My notes say that the Crescent Theatre operated at 451 S. Salina Street from 1909 to 1928. It was built and originally operated by the Cahill brothers. In 1916 it became part of the Keith vaudeville circuit for a while. A Marr & Colton organ was installed in 1920.
Girard: A Canal Town History, by Geoffrey L. Domowicz, says that the Denman Theatre is located on Main Street, though it doesn’t provide an address. It also uses the present tense in giving the location, but I was unable to spot the building using Google Street View. Maybe somebody else will have better luck.
The theater was apparently named for actor Thompson Denman, who was born in Girard in 1833. He died in 1911, after having spent much of his career playing the lead in a play he commissioned called The Old Homestead.
An ad in a 1927 issue of Publisher’s Weekly lists a book store called the Little Shop located in the Denman Theatre building, so it was open at least that early.
Architect George Eichenlaub penned at least two articles about his “Standard” theater designs for Boxoffice predecessor Motion Picture Times. One in the January 14, 1930, issue describes and illustrates a 500-seat house, which is probably the model the Denman followed. The article begins at this link and continues on this page.
Eichenlaub’s February 11, 1930, article about 750 seat theaters can be seen at this link.
The 1908-1909 edition of Julius Cahn’s Official Theatrical Guide lists the Lyceum Theatre at Smethport as a ground floor house with 710 seats.
The Lyceum apparently opened in 1904, not 1906. The entry for St. Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic Church in a tour book of Smethport says that the church building burned just before Christmas, 1904, and that the Christmas Mass that year was held at the newly-constructed Lyceum Theatre.
A list of corporations chartered in Pennsylvania in 1902 includes the Smethport Lyceum Company, incorporated on November 14 for the purpose of building and operating an opera house at Smethport.
After WWI, the building was bought by the American Legion, and it is mentioned in various publications of the 1920s and 1930s as the Legion Lyceum. I haven’t found any indication that the house ever operated on a regular basis as a movie theater. Our page for the Star Theatre, Smethport’s other theater, says that it opened in 1906 as the Kerr Moving Picture House. With 410 seats, it was probably sufficient to this small town’s demand for movies.
It’s possible that the Florida Theatre was the new house mentioned in the November 16, 1925, issue of The Film Daily:
Haines City’s other early theater, the Mar-Lea, was already in operation in 1925, and a photo of it shows that it was a fairly small house that was very unlikely to have cost $100,000.Steubenville’s Capitol Theatre opened on Labor Day, 1925, according to an item in the September 9 issue of The Film Daily.
The Wells Theatre is listed in a Fort Wayne telephone directory published in December, 1924.
A 1917 volume called The Pictorial History of Fort Wayne Indiana, by Joseph Griswold, has a paragraph about the Palace Theatre as part of a brief biography of Frank E. Stouder:
In partnership with Byron H. Barnett, Frank Stouder had earlier operated two other Fort Wayne houses; the Temple Theatre, beginning in 1894, and the Lyric Theatre, beginning in 1910. Stouder and Barnett disposed of their interests in both houses in 1915, to concentrate on operating the Palace.Photos of the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas can be seen on this page at the web site of ELS Architecture and Urban Design, the Berkeley firm that designed the renovation. D.Jamie Rusin was the principal architect for the project.
Previously, ELS has been involved in several restoration and adaptive reuse projects at historic theaters. The include the conversion of the Portland Theatre, Portland, Oregon, into the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall; the expansion and restoration of the California Theatre in San Jose; the restoration of the Fox Theatre in Oakland; and the expansion and restoration of the Grand Theatre at Tracy, California, for the Grand Theatre Center for the Arts.
Photos of the restored California Theatre can be seen on this page at the web site of ELS Architecture and Urban Design, the firm that handled the renovation project. The project included an entirely new stage tower and two new buildings to augment the theater’s production space and public areas. The web page has a plan of the ground floor showing the changes.
ELS also designed restoration projects for the Portland Theatre in Portland, Oregon, now Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall; The Fox Oakland Theatre; the restoration of the Grand Theatre at Tracy, California, as part of the Grand Theatre Center for the Arts; and the recent renovation of the former AMC Kabuki multiplex in San Francisco for Sundance Cinemas.
This article about the restoration of the Fox Oakland Theatre is by Kurt Schindler, principal of ELS Architecture and Urban Design, the Berkeley firm that did the plans for the renovation of the theater.
The firm’s web site also offers this page with several photos of the Fox.
In addition to the Fox, ELS has designed the restorations of the Grand Theatre in Tracy, California, the California Theatre in San Jose, and the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, formerly the Portland Theatre, in Portland, Oregon. More recently, ELS handled the renovation of the old AMC Kabuki multiplex for Sundance Cinemas.
Photos of the Grand Theatre Center, including some shots of the renovated auditorium, run as a slide show on this page at the web site of ELS Architecture and Urban Design, the firm that designed the renovation. Kurt Schindler was the principal architect of the project.
The Grand Theatre now seats 560, and features continental seating on the main floor. Other restoration and adaptive reuse projects designed by ELS include the California Theatre in San Jose, the Fox Theatre in Oakland, and the former Portland Theatre, now Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, in Portland, Oregon.
Eleven theaters, including the Globe, are listed in the neighborhood theater guide in the January 17, 1928, issue of the Syracuse Journal. Here is a scan of the page at Google Documents.
Smalley’s Oxford Theatre first appears in 1937 in this finding aid to the records of Smalley’s Theatres held by the New York State Historical Association. That is most likely the year it was built.
Smalley’s Johnstown Theatre was built in 1928 on the site of the Grand Theatre, which burned early that year.
The obituary of Hazel Smalley, widow of William Smalley, was published in the February 5, 1969, issue of the Leader-Herald newspaper. It said that Smalley’s Johnstown Theatre had been renamed the Towne Theatre in 1960.
A History of Fulton County published in 1892 says that the Johnstown Opera House was designed by architect Leon H. Lempert.
Most references to this Mission style house, opened in 1926, call it the Roland Courts or Roland Court Theatre, but the vertical sign seen in this ca.1945 photo says only Roland. I thinkt he small sign under the vertical says “2 Big Films”, but it’s a bit blurry so I couldn’t swear to it.
Video of a 2010 WVEC news report about the demolition, which includes a couple of vintage photos, can currently still be seen at this link.
A 1916 ad for the Casino Theatre on this web page gives its location as “One Half Block North of Siloam.” As near as I can figure, Siloam refers to Siloam Spring. A facility called the Hall of Waters was built at Siloam Spring in the 1930s, and today houses city offices, a visitors center, and a museum. It is on the south side of Broadway opposite the end of Elizabeth Street. This makes me think that perhaps the Siloam Theatre was the Casino Theatre, renamed.
Odd numbers are on the east sides of north-south streets in Excelsior Springs, so the Siloam Theatre would have been on the right side of Elizabeth Street as you go north from Broadway.
Despite the name on the marquee, this house still goes by the name Gordon Square Theatre, to differentiate it from the adjacent James Levin Theatre, also part of the Cleveland Public Theatre complex. The Gordon Square Theatre in its current configuration has 300 seats, and the Levin has 150.
The Cleveland Landmarks Commission attributes the design of the Gordon Square Theatre to architect George Allen Grieble, who also designed the Alhambra Theatre, the Olympia Theatre, and (possibly) the Penn Square Theatre, all between 1911 and 1913. However, an item in the November 3, 1917, issue of The Moving Picture World attributes the house to Arthur C. Yost. The item says:
The Landmarks Commission attributes only one theater to the firm of Richardson & Yost, that being a 1914 house at 15511 Waterloo Road. The Landmarks Commission page doesn’t give the theater’s name, but it is the house that opened as the Keystone Theatre and later became the Abbey Theatre.I’m not sure what to make of these conflicting claims. Very little information is available on the Internet about either Grieble or Yost, and the landmarks commission doesn’t cite sources for its attribution of the Gordon Square Theatre to Grieble. Clearing this up will likely require research in publications not available on the Internet, which means somebody with access to the Cleveland Public Library will probably have to do it.
The Liberty Theatre was established by Judson Herbert Ferguson, according to his biography in volume 2 of History of Oregon, by Charles Henry Carey. It probably opened before 1913, in which year it was called the Electric Theatre. It was in 1913 that Arthur Kolstad arrived in Hood River to take over management of the town’s two movie theaters, the other being the Gem at 103 Oak Street.
This house was still called the Electric Theatre in the 1917 City Directory, and must have been renamed the Liberty later that year, when the United States entered the World War.
In 1921, Ferguson and Kolstad built the Rialto Theatre, Hood River’s largest movie house, at 406 Oak Street. The Gem apparently closed at that time. This house continued to operate as the Liberty Theatre at least as late as 1928. I’ve been unable to discover when it was renamed the Cascadia.
Considerable biographical information about Arthur Kolstad can be found in the NRHP registration form for Cliff Lodge, which he once owned. It is available as a PDF at this link. A Google Documents version can be read online at this link.
This house opened as Ye Liberty Theater on February 22, 1912, with 1,600 seats. The original operator, Young Chun, was involved in a lawsuit which is recorded in legal journals of the time.
The seating capacity is found in various editions of All About Hawaii, an annual publication of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. The house was still listed in the book as Ye Liberty Theater at least as late as 1921.
The Alhambra Theatre originally opened on December 21, 1907, according to that day’s issue of the Utica Herald Dispatch. The building, owned by the Lux Brothers, had previously been occupied by Lux & Sons Washington Market. I still haven’t been able to discover if whether the Alhambra Theatre of 1915 was entirely new construction or a rebuilding of this earlier structure.
During the years 1918 and 1919, the Geneva Daily Times carries ads for the Regent and Temple Theatres and for a vaudeville and movie house called the Strand Theatre, but I find no mentions of the opera house during that time. The ads for the Strand vanish by 1920, and the Smith Opera House reappears. I wonder if they were the same theater?
The Temple Theatre opened on January 20, 1912, according to Ranjit Sandhu’s list of the works of Leon H. Lempert & Son. Sandhu doesn’t attribute the original design to any architect, but cites an item in the June 21, 1913, issue of American Contractor saying that Leon Lempert Jr., was the architect for a stage that was being added to the house.
It’s possible that Lempert was also the original architect for the Temple Theatre. The lack of attribution simply means that Sandhu was unable to find one in publications from the period. I haven’t found one either.
This colorized postcard is probably later than the one we currently display. It shows that a marquee had been added to the building, glass doors had been put in place to create a vestibule, and a colorful fan light had been installed in the arch above the entrance.