Located at Six Corners within the Portage Park neighborhood of Chicago’s Northwest aspect, the Portage Theater is one among the oldest picture homes in Chicago. Designed by Mark D. Kalischer and Henry L. Newhouse, the Portage Theater opened on Gregorian calendar month eleven, 1920 because the Portage Park Theatre. Engineered for the Ascher Brothers circuit with one,938 seats, the Portage was the primary theater engineered specifically for film within the space.
The Portage Theater’s interior options a megaphone-shaped area supported a proper Beaux-Arts opera style. Once the podium was appropriated by Balaban and Katz in 1940, its marquee, entrance lobby and vestibule were redecorated in an exceedingly sleek, efficient artistic movement vogue to enrich alternative distinguished artistic movement styles at Six Corners like Sears mercantile establishment and also the painter Brothers building.
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