Thomas W. Lamb

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This article is about Thomas W. Lamb, American theater designer. For the industrial designer, see Thomas Lamb

Interior of the B.F. Keith Memorial Theatre, Boston, designed by Lamb and opened in 1928.

Lobby of the Capitol Cinema in Ottawa, Canada.

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.

[edit] 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), 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
  • The Majestic Theatre, Bridgeport, Connecticut
  • Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City, 1930
  • Mark Strand Theater, New York City, 1914
  • 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 houses 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]
  • Capitol Cinema, Ottawa
  • Canon Theatre, Toronto
  • Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres, Toronto
  • Uptown Theatre, Toronto
  • Capitol Theatre, Hamilton^[5]

• India
  • Metro Cinema, Mumbai

[edit] 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.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Cinema Treasures' List of theatres designed by Thomas W. Lamb.
• Theatre Historical Society of America

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