Property Record
2893-2895 S DELAWARE AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | LAKE THEATER |
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| Other Name: | MARK GUBIN OFFICE AND PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO |
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| Reference Number: | 27761 |
| Location (Address): | 2893-2895 S DELAWARE AVE |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Milwaukee |
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| Year Built: | 1925 |
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| Survey Date: | 1990 |
| Historic Use: | theater/opera house/concert hall |
| Architectural Style: | Neoclassical/Beaux Arts |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
| Architect: | PEACOCK AND FRANK |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | 970-SEAT THEATER COST $90,000 TO BUILD. Cost included 970-seat theatre, three stores, and four apartments. Former neighborhood theatre, which opperated as the Lake Theater from 1926 to c. 1945, when it became the Bay Theatre. It closed in 1956. The builder was Badger Building Service. |
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| Bibliographic References: | PERMIT. MILWAUKEE HISTORIC BUILDINGS DRIVING TOUR OF BAY VIEW. hEADLEY, rOBERT, jR. 'tHE THEATERS OF mILWAUKEE ' Journal of the Theater Historical Society, (1971, v 3no.1p12 ) |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |