Comments from Broan

Here is a profile from the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency’s HAARGIS system. It includes some nice small pictures. Note that the National Register of Historic Places form identifies it as Spanish Revival. The National Register nomination form is VERY good reading; click on the Background Documentation link to see it.

The Woods was deemed eligible for the National Register of Historic Places before it was destroyed.

“Designed by Marshall and Fox, the Woods Theater (1917) is architecturally significant for its distinctive design and system of gothic-inspired detailing in which foliated friezes, clustered and twisted columns, and arched fenestration unify the 10-story Commercial-style office building and the adjacent low-scale theater structure. Historically, the office and theater facility is significant for its associations with the development of Chicago’s music publishing and performing arts industries in the early 20th century and its contribution to the identity of the Randolph Street area of downtown Chicago as "Tin Pan Alley” in the 1920s."

Here is a profile from the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency’s HAARGIS system. It includes small pictures. Here is another.

Here is a profile from the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency’s HAARGIS system. It includes a small picture, with the marquee still sporting the original 60s Congress lettering.

Here is a profile from the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency’s HAARGIS system. It includes a small picture.

Here is a profile from the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency’s HAARGIS system. It includes a small picture. Make sure to click the background information link to fully understand WHY it was put on the Register. Here is another that seems to be describing another building entirely but includes another picture.

I’m amazed nobody has commented on the fact that the Gateway and the Dupage have remarkably similar prosceniums.

Gateway:
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Dupage: 1, 2

Here is a profile from the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency’s HAARGIS system. It includes a small picture.

Here is a profile from the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency’s HAARGIS system. It includes a small picture.

Here is a profile from the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency’s HAARGIS system. It includes a small picture.

Here is a profile from the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency’s HAARGIS system. It includes a small picture.

Here is a profile from the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency’s HAARGIS system. It includes a small picture.

Here is a profile from the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency’s HAARGIS system. It includes a small picture.