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The Keith is 272 feet tall and 21 stories, and houses the Palace Theater, a former flagship theater of the Keith vaudeville circuit. [4] As of 2017, the renovated building is in use as an office tower. [5] At the time of its construction in 1922, the Keith was the tallest building in Cleveland, [6] and currently stands as the 25th-tallest. It ...
In 1854, a church and convent were built by Father Peter La Cour near the town's present site. The town began forming in 1878 when Charles Lander Cleveland, a local judge, donated 63.6 acres (257,000 m 2) of land to the Houston East & West Texas Railway (now part of the Union Pacific Railroad) for use as a stop, requesting that the town be named for him.
The building currently known as the Agora first opened on March 31, 1913, with an English performance of Aida as the Metropolitan Theatre. It was the brainchild of Max Faetkenheuer, an opera promoter and conductor who had also been involved in the construction of the monumental Hippodrome Theatre on Euclid Avenue five years earlier.
Esquire Jazz Club (former Esquire Theatre), Amarillo, 1947 J. Marvin Jones Federal Building and United States Courthouse , Amarillo, 1939 Kress Center City, Amarillo, 1932
[1] [2] [3] Although Public Auditorium was planned and funded prior to World War I, construction did not begin until 1920, and the building did not open until 1922. Designed by city architect J. Harold McDowell and Frank Walker of Walker and Weeks in a neoclassical style matching the other Group Plan buildings, it was the largest of its kind ...
The last theater to be constructed was the Palace Theatre, [7] now known as the Connor Palace, opening in November 1922 in the Keith Building, which at the time was the tallest in Cleveland. [5] There was a great promotion for the theater's opening: the largest electric sign in the world [ 8 ] was turned on to show that the Palace was open for ...
State Theatre (Cleveland, Ohio) This page was last edited on 10 October 2023, at 11:01 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Erected by 40 Czech cultural societies in 1896, this building, a mix of Renaissance Revival and Romanesque Revival architecture designed by the local firm of Steffens & Searles, was designed to serve the cultural, political, and social needs of Cleveland's Czech community. (At the time, Cleveland had the fourth-largest Czech population of any ...