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» Location » United States » Illinois » Chicago » Easterly Theatre Also known as Walton Theatre, East Theatre, East End Theatre 2768 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614

  • Status: Closed
  • Screens: Single Screen
  • Style: Unknown
  • Function: Beauty Salon
  • Seats: 470
  • Chain: Unknown
  • Architect: Clarence Hatzfeld
  • Firm: Hatzfeld & Knox

This fairly small neighborhood theater opened as the Easterly Theatre in 1915 for the Alfred Hamburger circuit, and was located in Lincoln Park, on Lincoln Avenue, close to the "six corners" of Lincoln and Racine Avenues and Diversey Parkway. In 1939 it was renamed Walton Theatre, but this was only for a brief time as it was re-named East Theatre in 1941. When it closed in 1951, it was known as the East End Theatre. The building that once housed this movie theater still stands, and now is home to a hair salon.

  • In the 1945 Film Daily Yearbook, this theater is shown as open seating 550 and now just called the East Theatre.
  • Currently Sine Qua Non Salon. This would be an interesting theater to study because of the way it wraps to fit the corner lot.
  • Architect appears to be Clarence Hatzfeld of the firm Hatzfeld & Knox, according to the American Terra Cotta index. Original owner Emil J. Dirks.
  • Another one I'll have to check out this week. The very corner space used to have a consignment antique store called The Time Well as a tenant. I think the rent increased, and then they had no tenant for years.
  • It was an art gallery for a brief time too.

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in the West Ridge neighborhood.... a community treasure...Indian Boundary Park and Cultural Center. ... the quaint Tudor-style field house. The Indian Boundary fieldhouse, designed by Clarence Hatzfeld, features Native American-themed ornament inspired by the park’s name, taken from a territorial boundary established between the Pottawattomie Indians and United States Government. Inside is a beautiful auditorium with stage, used for programs, theatre productions, concerts, community meetings and private rentals. As a designated cultural center, Indian Boundary thrives with various painting, piano, danceand voice lessons for both children and adults. Some classes take place on the park’s back porch, so that artists can use the park’s scenery as inspiration. Theatre arts is a mainstay, including youth and adult play productions, teen improvisation and theatre games. Indian Boundary is a residency site in the Civic Orchestra of Chicago’s program, offering free, family-oriented and interactive concert performances for the community throughout the year.

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Indian Boundary Park takes its name from a territorial boundary established by the Treaty of 1816 between the Pottawattomie Indians and the U.S. government. The boundary line, which ran through the land that is now the park, remained in effect only through 1833, when the Pottawattomies were forced entirely from the area in the face of white settlement.

Indian Boundary Park was the second and largest of the four parks created by the Ridge Avenue Park District. The others were Morse (now Matanky), Chippewa, and Pottawattomie. The Ridge Avenue district was the first of 19 neighborhood park commissions established after 1896 to serve areas recently annexed to the city. Chicago's three original park districts had authority only to create parks within the 1869 city limits.

The Ridge Avenue Park District began acquiring land for Indian Boundary Park in 1915. Richard F. Gloede, a designer of North Shore estate landscapes, developed an early plan for the park. In the mid-1920s, the Ridge Avenue Park District opened a small zoo, one of only two zoos in Chicago and initially housing only a lone black bear. The 1929 Tudor-Revival fieldhouse designed by architect Clarence Hatzfeld features Native American-themed ornament inspired by the park's name. Indian Boundary Park is unusual in that its eastern lawn flows seamlessly into the front yards of neighboring apartment buildings. This park feature was so well-received that in the 1960s the Chicago Park District closed off part of adjacent Estes Avenue as well.

In 2005 Indian Boundary Fieldhouse was designated a Historical Landmark by the City of Chicago and is also listed in the National Register of Historical Places. Location Details...spraypool 2500 W. Lunt Ave. Chicago, IL 60645 Phone: 773.764.0338

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