Penn Theater
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Heinz Hall
1927, C. W. Rapp and George Rapp; 1971 restored, Stotz, Hess, MacLachlan and Fosner. 600 Penn Ave.
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(Photograph by Peter Radunzel, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Marcus Loew's Penn Theater, which opened as the “Temple of the Cinema,” has the mixture of French Baroque and Rococo features that were a hallmark of movie-theater specialists Rapp and Rapp of Chicago. The Penn was one of the first old cinema palaces in the nation to find new life as a concert hall. H. J. Heinz II personally financed its revival, using his own favorite hall, the Vienna Opera, as guide. Of particular note is the massive four-story arched window with decorative cartouche. The Heinz endowments added the garden plaza next door as an intermission space in summer.
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Location: Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaRegional Overviews:Architect:Materials:
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1927
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1971
Restored
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Citation
Lu Donnelly et al., "Heinz Hall", [Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-01-AL11.
Print Source
Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, Lu Donnelly, H. David Brumble IV, and Franklin Toker. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010, 50-50.
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