Rapp and Rapp

C. W. & George L. Rapp
Practice information
Key architectsC. Ward Rapp; George L. Rapp; Mason G. Rapp
PartnersC. Ward Rapp; George L. Rapp
Founded1906
Dissolved1965
LocationChicago, Illinois
The Chicago Theatre, designed by the Rapps for Balaban & Katz and completed in 1921.
The Uptown Theatre in Chicago, completed in 1925.
Shea's Performing Arts Center, originally Shea's Buffalo, completed in 1926.
The Paramount Building in Times Square, New York City, completed in 1927.
The Old Dearborn Bank Building in Chicago, completed in 1928.
The Paramount Theatre in Denver, completed in 1930.

C. W. & George L. Rapp, commonly known as Rapp & Rapp, was an American architectural firm famed for the design of movie palaces and other theatres. Active from 1906 to 1965 and based in Chicago, the office designed over 400 theatres, including the Chicago Theatre (1921), Bismarck Hotel and Theatre (1926) and Oriental Theater (1926) in Chicago, the Five Flags Center (1910) in Dubuque, Iowa and the Paramount Theatres in New York City (1926) and Aurora, Illinois (1931).

Warner Grand Theater (Milwaukee) Wisconsin built in 1931

The named partners were brothers C. Ward Rapp (1860–1926) and George L. Rapp (1878–1941), sons of a builder and natives of Carbondale, Illinois. Their Chicago practice is not to be confused with the Trinidad, Colorado practice of their brothers Isaac H. Rapp (1854–1933) and William M. Rapp (1863–1920) or the notable Cincinnati architects George W. Rapp and Walter L. Rapp, to whom they were not related.