Knickerbocker Theatre
8315 Euclid Avenue,
Cleveland,
OH
44106
8315 Euclid Avenue,
Cleveland,
OH
44106
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Here is a photo of the Knickerbocker Playhouse auditorium from the Cleveland Memory project.
The Knickerbocker Theatre was built in 1913 or earlier. A biographical sketch of several members of the Skeel family in a book published that year says of the Skeel Brothers Company, a large construction and development firm: “The company built and owns the Knickerbocker Theatre and the Mercantile Office Building, Euclid avenue, and in this building their office is located.”
At least two members of the Skeel family were architects, so it’s possible that the Knickerbocker Theatre was designed by one or both of them, but I’ve been unable to confirm this.
The Knickerbocker Theatre got a few lines in an article about Cleveland movie houses that was published in The Moving Picture World on July 15, 1916:
This theatre looks to be demolished. Google photos show parking lots and a new housing development.