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Ramova Theatre

3518 South Halsted Street Chicago
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Built in 1929, this Spanish Renaissance Revival-style building was designed by Myer O. Nathan for Lithuanian-American businessman Jokūbas Maskoliūnas to serve as a neighborhood movie theater. The building is clad in buff brick with terra cotta trim, decorative reliefs, paired one-over-one windows on the second floor of the front facade, large first floor bays, a bonnet mansard roof, terra cotta urns on the parapets above the entrance bays, a terra cotta lobby facade with a large stained glass clerestory window featuring stained glass panels flanked by two recessed niches, pilasters, and decorative trim, a large neon blade sign mounted to the lobby facade, and a suspended marquee above the main theater entrance. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. In 2023, the theater reopened after a major rehabilitation, and today, serves as a live performance and events venue.. Openly licensed photograph selected near the verified coordinates.
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