Levy & Klein
{{Short description|Defunct American architectural firm}}
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Levy & Klein was a prominent architectural firm known for their theater designs. Their work includes the Landmark's Century Centre Cinema in Chicago and Marbro Theater in Chicago.{{cite web | url=http://digital-libraries.saic.edu/cdm/search/collection/mqc/searchterm/Levy%20&%20Klein%20(Firm)/mode/exact | title=CONTENTdm }} Their work also includes the Granada Theatre (Chicago) and North Avenue Baths Building (1921).{{Cite web|url=http://designslinger.com/2013/04/24/north-avenue-baths-building.aspx|title = Design slinger}} Edward Eichenbaum is credited with several of the firm's theater designs.{{Cite web|url=http://www.compassrose.org/balaban-and-katz/Diversey-Century-Theatre.html|title = Diversey / Century Theatre — Historic Theatres & Movie Palaces of Balaban and Katz}}
North Avenue Baths
Edward Eichenbaum
Eichenbaum is credited with designing the Granada Theater at 6427 North Sheridan Road; Landmark's Century Centre Cinema (originally the Diversey Theatre, later the Century Theatre) at 2828 North Clark Street; Marbro Theatre at 4110 West Madison Street; and the Regal Theatre at 4710 South Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.[http://cinematreasures.org/architects/297 Edward Eichenbaum] Cinema TreasuresThe four major works of Levy & Klein, Architects : as designed by Edward Eichenbaum / by Joseph DuciBella Joseph R Duci Bella NA6835 .C5 1999 Published in Elmhurst, Illinois by the Theatre Historical Society of America 1999; Theatre Historical Society annual no. 26Annual (Theatre Historical Society (U.S.)) no. 26 cover title: "Diversey Theatre, Granada Theatre, Marbro Theatre, Regal Theatre, Chicago, Illinois." 50 pages, illustrated; 22 x 28 cm OCLC Number: 43747364 Landmark's Century Center Cinema operates in part of the Diversey/Century Theatre building, which was gutted and rebuilt as a multi-level shopping center in the mid-1970s.[http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/385 Landmark's Century Center Cinema] Cinema Treasures
Additional work
- Regal Theater, South Side (Chicago)
- Hotel Felix (1926), a 12-story building at 111 West Huron Street in Chicago. Originally the Hotel Wacker, it was redeveloped into a new hotel.[http://www.chicagoarchitecture.info/Building/3846/Hotel-Felix.php Hotel Felix] Chicago Architecture
- Bryn Mawr Apartment Hotel (1928), a 12-story apartment building at 5550 N. Kenmore Avenue and both a Chicago Landmark and contributing structure to the Bryn Mawr Historic District.