Steinway Hall | |
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Former names |
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General information | |
Type | Office building / indoor theater |
Address | 64 East Van Buren Street |
Town or city | Chicago, Illinois |
Country | United States |
Year(s) built | 1896 |
Demolished | 1970 |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Dwight H. Perkins |
Other information | |
Seating capacity | 850-seat theater |
Number of stores | 11 |
Steinway Hall (1896 – 1970) was an 11-story office building, and ground-floor theater (later cinema), located at 64 East Van Buren Street in Chicago, Illinois.[1] The theater had at least 14 names over the years, opening in 1896 as the Steinway Music Hall, and closing in the late 1960s as Capri Cinema. In the early 1900s, the building held the offices and nucleus of a group of famous Chicago architects that included a young Frank Lloyd Wright.[2] These architects, inspired by the Arts and Crafts Movement and the philosophies of Louis Sullivan, formed what would become known as the Prairie School.[3]