Hamilton Theatre
2150 E. 71st Street,
Chicago,
IL
60649
2150 E. 71st Street,
Chicago,
IL
60649
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Previously operated by: National Theaters Corp., Warner Bros. Circuit Management Corp.
Architects: Hal Pereira, William L. Pereira
Firms: Pereira and Pereira
Styles: Art Deco
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The Hamilton Theatre was opened in 1916, for the Cooney Brothers National Theaters Corp. circuit, in the heart of the South Shore neighborhood’s 71st Street retail district. It sat just under 1,000.
Like the nearby Jeffery Theatre, the Hamilton Theatre was later run by Warner Brothers in the 1930’s and 1940’s. In 1936, the theatre received a remodel by the firm of Pereira & Pereira. Both the Hamilton Theatre and Jeffery Theatre continued to be popular first-run neighborhood houses for decades, though both theatres were shuttered for many years.
In 2002, the Hamilton Theatre was demolished.
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Thanks ! LTS for the info. I was unable to locate any pix on the
http://www.historictheatres.org/
link of the Hamilton or Jeffrey….probably my lack lack of search savvy :)
thanks again !
No problem. FYI: the Hamilton and Jeffrey are probably too obscure to be featured on the THS web site. But if you call the archive, using contact info on their web site, I am sure they can arrange for you to get your hands on some nice material.
1936 modernization by Pereira & Pereira. Marquee, Box Office, Lighting, Lounges.
Need help here. I have an advertisement from the Englewood Economist, dated Tues., October 19, 1909 which reads:
Hamilton Theatre
High-Class Vaudeville
6811-13 South Halsted Street
CHANGE OF PROGRAM
Monday & Thursday
Admission 10 Cents
Sunday Evenings: Reserved Seats
20c Sunday Mat. Children 5c
2 Shows a Night – Sunday Matinee
Another Hamilton theater – in Englewood? I found a 1910 ad for the Blue Mouse Theatre (also a vaudeville house) listed as 69th and Halsted. Did the Hamilton later become the Blue Mouse?
Here are photos from 1975 and 1982:
http://tinyurl.com/cwebsc
http://tinyurl.com/d3lsko
Thanks for those pics Ken
They should be sent to the site manager to be posted at the top.
I lived a few blocks from the Hamilton. Saw Disney’s “Song of the South” there twice, 1948, and 1956. admission was 5 cents m-f, 10 cents on weekends.
went to O'Keeffe School, grad 1955.
regards
richard jacobson
granada hills, ca
The principals of Pereira & Pereira, the firm that did the 1936 remodeling of the Hamilton Theatre, were William Pereira and Hal Pereira. Percival Pereira was an older architect who was never a member of this firm.
Does anyone remember a theater that was across from a park in the mid-60’s; south side somewhere, could have been the Hamilton or the Jeffrey. Remember seeing Sound of Music there several times.
no park across from either theater. you may be thinking of a theater on Stony Island, which is across from Jackson Park.
Here is a THSA photo