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  • <p>2003 photo credit Adam Martin Collection.</p>
  • <p>Norshore Theatre, Chicago, IL in 1926 - View from Balcony at top of main stairway overlooking Grand Lobby</p>
  • <p>Norshore Theatre Chicago Illinois
              A damaged photo</p>
  • <p>1960 pending demolition photo via Chris Carson.</p>
  • <p>Circa 1950 photo credit Yesterday’s Trails Historical Photos.</p>
  • <p>Emma Cohen with a front for “Hitchin' Posts” in 1920 at the Casino Theatre in Chicago.</p>
  • <p>Photo credit Mike Stillman.</p>
  • <p>Circa 1910 postcard image credit & courtesy LeRoy Blommaert, Edgewater Historical Society.</p>
  • <p>Auditorium side view with shallow mezzanine</p>
  • <p>View towards stage from center of mezzanine</p>
  • <p>Rear wall of main floor below mezzanine</p>
  • <p>October 14, 2017 images and description courtesy of bldg. 51 archive and Urban Remains.</p>
            
              <p>“an afternoon documenting congress theater’s attic searching for objects left by tradesmen in 1926.
              i was amazed at the amount of ornamental plaster they abandoned along the perimeter of the "iron tent.”
              i found a crude wooden “tool” (possibly a makeshift square) next to a pile of unused hemp and a colorful “clown cigarettes” matchbook."</p>
  • <p>October 14, 2017 images and description courtesy of bldg. 51 archive and Urban Remains.</p>
            
              <p>“an afternoon documenting congress theater’s attic searching for objects left by tradesmen in 1926.
              i was amazed at the amount of ornamental plaster they abandoned along the perimeter of the "iron tent.”
              i found a crude wooden “tool” (possibly a makeshift square) next to a pile of unused hemp and a colorful “clown cigarettes” matchbook."</p>
  • <p>October 14, 2017 images and description courtesy of bldg. 51 archive and Urban Remains.</p>
            
              <p>“an afternoon documenting congress theater’s attic searching for objects left by tradesmen in 1926.
              i was amazed at the amount of ornamental plaster they abandoned along the perimeter of the "iron tent.”
              i found a crude wooden “tool” (possibly a makeshift square) next to a pile of unused hemp and a colorful “clown cigarettes” matchbook."</p>
  • <p>October 14, 2017 images and description courtesy of bldg. 51 archive and Urban Remains.</p>
            
              <p>“an afternoon documenting congress theater’s attic searching for objects left by tradesmen in 1926.
              i was amazed at the amount of ornamental plaster they abandoned along the perimeter of the "iron tent.”
              i found a crude wooden “tool” (possibly a makeshift square) next to a pile of unused hemp and a colorful “clown cigarettes” matchbook."</p>
  • <p>“The primary entry/exit point to access congress theater’s attic dome is a suspended wood catwalk.”
              Photo credit & courtesy of the bldg. 51 archive.
              Description credit Urban Remains.</p>
  • <p>photo from The Chicago Architectural Center</p>
  • <p>Congress, Chicago, Illinois</p>
  • <p>The CONGRESS Theatre auditorium on February 6, 2023. Photo: Colin Boyle</p>
  • <p>Hoyburn Theatre, Evanston, IL in 1916</p>