Aristo Theatre
2650 N. Lincoln Avenue,
Chicago,
IL
60614
2650 N. Lincoln Avenue,
Chicago,
IL
60614
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This Lincoln Park neighborhood theater opened as the American Theatre in 1910. In 1912, it was renamed the Aristo Theatre. Just before it closed in 1926, it had been renamed again, as the Vanity Theatre. The Aristo Theatre was located on Lincoln Avenue near Kenmore Avenue.
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Bryan Krefft, Ken Roe
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There’s a condo building on the site now but I can’t tell if it’s a heavily remodeled theater or new construction.
I think that building is too narrow to be a former theater. It may have been built after the old theater building was razed.
Shoot, I just drove by this today. I’ll take a look next week.
http://tinyurl.com/dynkcd is the building I am referring to. This matches the theatre’s footprint. It hardly looks like an old building, but the back wall looks considerably older. And then compare to this pre-Renovation picture: HERE. Although it looks like a different building entirely initially, look at the columns and arched doorway. This is the same building, refaced, dating to roughly the theater’s age. I believe the columns are there to mark the theatre’s entrance.
Cool. I’d say you are correct.
I’ll swing by this one when I check out the former Roscoe Theater building near Seeley.
I drove by this place today. Completely different now than in
BWChicago’s pre-renovation pic.
It now has a much brighter drivit/stucco false front over everything that is pictured. But the building’s overall length & roof line appear to be the same.
Not to be confused with a much-earlier Aristo Theatre at 1139 North California.