Thomas White Lamb (1871 - 1942) was one of the foremost American theater and cinema architects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is noted for designing New York's Ziegfeld Theatre, as well as the second Madison Square Garden. Lamb's architectural archive is held by the Drawings and Archives Department of Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University.
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Selected theaters designed by Lamb
- United States
- Academy of Music, New York City, 1927 (later became the Palladium nightclub)
- B.F. Keith Memorial Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts, 1928
- Capitol Theatre, New York City, 1919
- Cort Theatre, New York City, 1912[1]
- Fox Theatre, San Francisco, California, 1929
- Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1927
- Hippodrome, New York City, 1923 redesign[2]
- Keith-Albee Theatre, Huntington, West Virginia, 1928
- Landmark Theatre, originally Loew's State Theatre, Syracuse, New York, 1928
- Loew's 72nd Street Theatre, New York City, 1930
- Loew's Grand Theatre, Atlanta, 1932 [3]
- Loew's State Theatre, Times Square, New York City, 1924
- Madison Square Garden, New York City, 1925
- Madison Theater, Albany NY 1928
- The Majestic Theatre, Bridgeport, Connecticut
- Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City, 1930
- Mark Strand Theater, New York City, 1914
- Maryland Theater, Hagerstown, 1915
- Midland Theatre, Kansas City, Missouri, 1927
- Municipal Auditorium, Birmingham, Alabama, 1924
- Ohio Theatre, Playhouse Square, Cleveland, Ohio, 1921
- Ohio Theatre, Columbus, Ohio, 1928
- Orpheum Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts
- Palace Theatre, Bridgeport, Connecticut (now defunct, with renovations starting).
- Palace Theatre (Columbus, Ohio), 1926
- Pitkin Theatre, Brooklyn NY, 1928
- Pythian Temple, Manhattan, 1927, the spacious theater the building once housed is gone; the facade remains.
- Palace Theatre, Stamford, Connecticut, 1927
- Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady, New York, 1926
- Regent Theatre, New York City, 1913
- Rivoli Theatre, New York City, 1917
- RKO Proctor's 59th Street Theatre, Manhattan, NY, 1928
- RKO Proctor's 86th Street Theatre, Manhattan, NY, 1927
- RKO Keith's Theatre, Flushing, New York, 1928
- Stanley Theater (Utica, New York), 1928
- Strand Theater, Lakewood, NJ
- State Theatre, Playhouse Square, Cleveland, Ohio, 1920
- State Theatre Center for the Arts, Uniontown, Pennsylvania, 1922
- United Palace Theater, New York City (originally Loew's 175th Street Theater), 1930
- Victoria Theater, New York City, 1917
- Warner Theatre, Torrington, Connecticut, 1931
- Ziegfeld Theatre, New York City (with Joseph Urban), 1927
- Ridgewood Theatre, Ridgewood, New York
- Canada
- Capitol Theatre and Arts Centre, Windsor[4] 1920; later as arts centre (now closed)
- Capitol Cinema, Ottawa 1920; demolished 1970
- Canon Theatre, Toronto 1920
- Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres, Toronto 1913
- Uptown Theatre, Toronto 1920; demolished 2003
- Capitol Theatre, Hamilton[5] 1920, all but lobby demolished 1973
- India
- Metro BIG Cinemas, Mumbai 1938
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Residential Architecture
In 1920, Lamb designed for himself a private summer home in the Adirondacks in the village of Elizabethtown, New York. The house, which is still extant as a residence, is situated on the Boquet River. The eight-bedroom manor, referred to today as Cobble Mountain Lodge, is a shingle and cobble stone design marked by the whimsy of a stone turret.
References
- ^ Morrison, William (1999) (trade paperback). Broadway Theatres: History and Architecture. Dover Books on Architecture. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications. p. 82. ISBN 0-486-40244-4.
- ^ Morrison, p. 82
- ^ Cinema Treasures
- ^ Capitol Theatre and Arts Centre, Windsor
- ^ Archives of Ontario
External links
- Cinema Treasures' List of theatres designed by Thomas W. Lamb.
- Theatre Historical Society of America
- Gray, Christopher, Streetscapes: Thomas W. Lamb’s Theaters, An Architect for Stage and Screen, Wired New York, October 5, 2008
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