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Tower Theater

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1927, Hodgens and Hill. 19 S. 69th St.

Now a popular music venue, the Tower Theater is conservatively styled with a classical lower facade and tower, but with a steel radio tower that gave the building identity at the beginning of the media age. Scattered around the district are a host of one- and two-story buildings by lesser known architects, including Thalheimer and Weitz and Stetler and Deysher, who encrusted small-scale commercial buildings with eye-catching panels of brilliantly colored Art Deco ornament that make up the region's best collection of 1920s commercial architecture.

Writing Credits

Author: 
George E. Thomas
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What's Nearby

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Citation

George E. Thomas, "Tower Theater", [Millbourne, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-02-DE33.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of PA vol 2

Buildings of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania, George E. Thomas, with Patricia Likos Ricci, Richard J. Webster, Lawrence M. Newman, Robert Janosov, and Bruce Thomas. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 231-231.

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