Left This photo of the Sedgwick Theater exterior was taken about 80 years ago, not long after it opened to the public as a movie theater in Right The exterior of the Sedgwick Theater has not changed much over the last 85 years. I do not recall the โฆ. We have recently launched a new and improved website.
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Click here to see your options for becoming a subscriber. I do not recall the reason for the photo or how I obtained it, but an attached note said it was from the early s. Therefore, I decided to look up the history of the theater, and here is what I found on Wikipedia:. By the way, apparently no one on earth knows the identity of the person for whom Sedgwick Theater โ or Sedgwick Street โ was named.
I tried for about 45 minutes checking with numerous websites that claim to answer any factual question. I visited ask. Not one could supply the name of the person for whom the Sedgwick Theater and Sedgwick Street were named. The Sedgwick Theater is a historic American theater built in Mt.
It was built in and designed by architect William Harold Lee. It is one of the remaining 20 Philadelphia theaters as of that he designed; nine have been demolished. The Sedgwick Theater was designed in the s Art Deco style and built during a movie revolution with the advent of sync sound and showed silent films as well as talkies. This perhaps explains the theater's design including a stage for live performance, as well as its large single screen.
