Foyer, Civic Theatre, Main Street, Akron, OH : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Foyer, Civic Theatre, Main Street, Akron, OH / w_lemay
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Built in 1925-1929, this Mediterranean Revival and Moorish Revival-style building was designed by John Eberson, and was originally known as the Loew’s Theatre. The building is one of five remaining atmospheric theaters designed by Eberson, with the movie palace featuring an auditorium that is meant to resemble the open-air courtyard of a Moorish palace. The initial section of the theater to be completed was the lobby, which was begun in 1919, though the originally intended Hippodrome Theater did not get built, and the lobby sat vacant until 1925, when it was purchased by Marcus Loew to serve as the lobby of a new theatre. The lobby was extended to the east, with a long foyer close to Main Street, a lobby spanning the Ohio and Erie canal with a grand staircase and vaulted ceiling inside and brick cladding on the outside, and a large auditorium in the rear, which is relatively unadorned on the exterior, but features a lavishly decorated interior. The brick-clad sections of the building were originally obscured behind other buildings on Main Street, Bowery Street, and Water Street, but with large-scale demolition during and after urban renewal in the 20th Century and 21st Century, the building’s various sections are now highly visible, and have been partially painted with murals on the north and south facades.The building’s front facade is clad in terra cotta with a red terra cotta tile bonnet roof featuring exposed rafter tails, decorative green terra cotta trim, with cartouches, sculptural reliefs, two arched windows on the second floor, and a large entrance bay on the first floor with a transom and a recessed entrance featuring an ornate brass and green marble press box, a marquee suspended over the sidewalk, and a vertical neon blade sign mounted on the facade displaying the words “Civic”. The foyer of the theater, located within the portion of the building completed in 1919, is the simplest of the three grand interior spaces, with a ceiling featuring a cornice and decorative beams, walls lined with display cases, metal railings and screens, marble wainscoting, and a decorative terrazzo floor, which terminates in an alcove behind an arch at a set of six wooden doors with diamond-pane windows. Beyond the doors is the theater lobby, which features a vaulted coffered ceiling with ornate detailing, several chandeliers in the Moorish style, Moorish-style columns, broken pediments, a grand staircase with brass railings that terminate in torchiere-style light fixtures at the bottom, decorative panels and torchiere sconces on the walls, second-story balconies with ornate railings and paired arch openings with ornate columns, a large arched opening at the top of the stairs, a decorative arched niche surrounded by ornate columns at the entrance door front he foyer, and statue niches on the walls. The lobby is separated from the auditorium by vestibule hallways that feature barrel vaulted and flat ceilings with surfaces textured and colored to look like leaves, decorative corbels, arched openings, and ornate columns. The auditorium features ornate trim work around the stage and boxes, with finials, decorative columns, arched openings, and faux juliet balconies, all designed to appear like the facade of a palace, with a ceiling that appears like the sky at dusk, with stars and clouds, faux vines climbing up the walls, balconies with ornate facings and wrought iron railings, a Wurlitzer organ, and red curtains at the stage.The building was threatened with demolition in 1965, as large theaters in urban centers became less viable in the face of competition from newer suburban theaters and multi-screen cinemas. The Akron Jaycees purchased the building to save it from demolition, and it was subsequently run by The Women’s Guild from 1966 onwards, who brought back live theater performances to the building, which had been run as a movie-only theater for decades. The theatre was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The building was extensively rehabilitated in 2001-2002, restoring the character-defining significant features of the interior and front facade, updating building systems, and repairing the damage from decades of active use as a movie theater and live performance venue. Today, it hosts a variety of live events, and is a carefully stewarded, excellent example of an early 20th Century downtown movie palace. |
| 撮影日 | 2023-04-30 17:33:27 |
| 撮影者 | w_lemay , Chicago, IL, United States |
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| 撮影地 | Akron, Ohio, United States 地図 |