Liberty Theatre
1020 Farmer Street,
Detroit,
MI
48226
1020 Farmer Street,
Detroit,
MI
48226
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Previously operated by: Kunsky Theatres
Architects: Charles Howard Crane
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The Liberty Theatre was a nickelodeon-turned-silent movie house in the Farmer Street theater row that opened around 1913. It was a conversion of a former church to the plans of architect Charles Howard Crane and was operated by Kunsky Theatres chain. It lasted until 1926, closing around the time sound films were being introduced. It sat next-door to the Theatre Royale, or Royale, also on Farmer Street and also operarted by John Kunsky.
The entire block of buildings has long since been torn down.
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The Liberty Theatre was built within the shell of a former church, and was designed by architect C. Howard Crane. Photos of it were featured in an article on Crane’s theater designs in the September, 1914, issue of The American Architect, but I’ve been unable to find a digital version of that magazine online. Fortunately, some of the illustrations can be seen in The Theater Designs of C. Howard Crane, the Masters thesis of Lisa Maria DiChiera, available at The Internet Archive:
An exterior photo, along with a drawing of the church.
A floor plan of the theater as redesigned by Crane.
A photo fo the auditorium.
This was one of eight theaters designed by C. Howard Crane that had so far been built for John Kunsky, according to the December 11, 1915 issue of Moving Picture World.