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[Loop Theatre and New United Masonic Temple, Randolph St. between State St. and Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1925. – Antique Poster Print

[Loop Theatre and New United Masonic Temple, Randolph St. between State St. and Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1925., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Loop Theatre and New United Masonic Temple, Randolph St. between State St. and Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1925., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings. Vintage poster from the Theater Posters collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Loop Theatre and New United Masonic Temple, Randolph St. between State St. and Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1925.

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Few stretches of Chicago packed in as much entertainment as Randolph Street did in the 1920s, and this ink drawing shows one block of it, where a theater and a Masonic temple were planned side by side between State and Dearborn streets. Architectural drawings like this were working documents that guided construction, so the careful linework shows how a mixed-use building of lodge rooms, offices and a movie house was meant to rise in the Loop. Projects like this reflected the decade's appetite for both skyscrapers and picture palaces, and the drawing captures a time when downtown Chicago was growing upward as well as outward.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1925
SubjectsTheaters--Illinois--Chicago--1920-1930. Motion picture theaters--Illinois--Chicago--1920-1930. Masonic buildings--Illinois--Chicago--1920-1930. Skyscrapers--Illinois--Chicago--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,316 × 4,124 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210445

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