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Structure Type: built works - performing arts buildings
Designers: Spaulding and Rex, Architects (firm); Webber and Spaulding, Architects (firm); John Gabriel Beckman (painter); Sumner Maurice Spaulding (architect); Walter Irving Webber (architect)
Dates: [unspecified]
Designed for William Wrigley, Jr., a Chicago chewing gum magnate; the building accommodates a ground-floor film theatre and a ballroom located four floors above. According to historian David Naylor, the theatre originally seated 1,184. (See David Naylor, American Picture Palaces The Architecture of Fantasy, (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981), p. 219.)
PCAD id: 1021
