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Lyric Theatre

The theater was known as the American Music Hall when it opened in 1908. With new ownership in 1915, came the new name the Lyric Theatre.

Tags: theaters (buildings), tour_theater

A movie theater constructed in the 1930s. By the late 1950s, the theater went by the name, the “Luxor Follies” and showed obscene movies. Eventually police and legal pressure forced the theater closed in the early 1960s and it was soon after…

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Little Theatre

This is a one bay, three story, L-shaped building that takes the form of a minaret. In 1930 the building won a Broad Street Association award for architectural harmony.

Tags: Military Park Commons Historic District, movie theaters, theaters (buildings)

Library Hall

Formerly stood at 115 Market Street.

Tags: Cultural

Liberty Hall

Formerly stood at 252 South Orange Avenue.

Tags: Cultural

Empire Theatre

Tags: theaters (buildings), tour_theater

Elvings Metropolitan Theatre

Elvings Metropolitan Theatre was Newark's only Yiddish theater, which was built and operated by Bernard and Israel Elving.

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Cameo Theatre

Tags: movie theaters, theaters (buildings)

Loew's State Theatre

Proctor's Palace Theatre

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Branford Theatre

Tags: Four Corners Historic District, theaters (buildings), tour_theater

New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)

The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), opened about 10 years after the idea was first introduced by then-Governor Thomas H. Kean. The firms Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and James Stewart Polshek & Partners jointly developed a master plan for…

Tags: cultural centers (buildings), performing arts buildings, theaters (buildings)

Industrial Office Building

Tags: commercial buildings, Lincoln Park Historic District

Wuensch the Druggist

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F.W. Woolworth Co. Variety store

The Woolworth building has an L-shaped plan with two principal facades, one on Market St. and one on Broad St.

Tags: commercial buildings, Four Corners Historic District

Wiss Building

The Wiss Company was the Newark based manufacturer of scissors and sheers and a retail jeweler. This was an L-shaped, 10 story building of white stone, terracotta, and pressed metal.

Tags: commercial buildings, high-rises, Military Park Commons Historic District

U.S. Credit Systems Building

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Union Building

Tags: commercial buildings, Four Corners Historic District, office buildings

Stoutenburgh & Co. Building

Tags: commercial buildings, Four Corners Historic District

Snyder's Department Store

Tags: commercial buildings, department stores, Military Park Commons Historic District

S. Klein on the Square

Tags: commercial buildings, department stores, Military Park Commons Historic District

National Newark Building

Tags: Four Corners Historic District, high-rises, historic buildings, skyscrapers

Metropolitan Building

Tags: commercial buildings, Four Corners Historic District

Medical Arts Building

Tags: commercial buildings, historic buildings, Lincoln Park Historic District, skyscrapers

McCrorys

Constructed in 1892 to house the William V. Snyder Company Dry Goods Store, the building was converted to McCrory's five and dime department store in the 1940s. McCrory's modernized the structure’s facade to the Art Moderne style as well as…

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