Garden Theatre

Joe Vogel on September 7, 2024 at 1:47 pm

Plans for this theater were announced in the August 9, 1913 issue of Motography: “The Garden City Theater Company of Peoria was incorporated on Thursday with a capital of ten thousand dollars, which means that the city is to have another motion picture theater. The new company, which is composed of prominent theatrical men is already planning its first theater, to be built at the corner of Garden and Tyng streets. Reeves & Baillie are drawing the plans for the same and work is to be started and rushed to completion as soon as possible.”

The architectural firm of William Hawks Reeves and John M. Baillie was established at Peoria in 1893 and for more than two decades was one of the leading firms in the region.