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228-36 S. 52Nd St. Nomination NOMINATION OF HISTORIC BUILDING, STRUCTURE, SITE, OR OBJECT PHILADELPHIA REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PHILADELPHIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION SUBMIT ALL ATTACHED MATERIALS ON PAPER AND IN ELECTRONIC FORM (CD, EMAIL, FLASH DRIVE) ELECTRONIC FILES MUST BE WORD OR WORD COMPATIBLE 1. ADDRESS OF HISTORIC RESOURCE (must comply with an Office of Property Assessment address) Street address: 228-36 South 52nd Street Postal code: 19139-4003 Councilmanic District: 3 2. NAME OF HISTORIC RESOURCE Historic Name: The Locust Theatre Current/Common Name: The Bushfire Theatre of the Performing Arts 3. TYPE OF HISTORIC RESOURCE X Building ☐ Structure ☐ Site ☐ Object 4. PROPERTY INFORMATION Occupancy: X occupied ☐ vacant ☐ under construction ☐ unknown Current use: Theater 5. BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION See attached. 6. DESCRIPTION See attached. 7. SIGNIFICANCE See attached. Period of Significance (from year to year): from 1914 to present Date(s) of construction and/or alteration: 1914, 1922 Architect, engineer, and/or designer: Stuckert & Sloan, Hoffman-Henon Company Builder, contractor, and/or artisan: Conkling-Armstrong Terra Cotta Company Original owner: George Felt (of the Felt Amusement Company.) Other significant persons: Maurice Felt, Frederick G. Nixon-Nirdlinger, William Freihofer. CRITERIA FOR DESIGNATION: The historic resource satisfies the following criteria for designation (check all that apply): X (a) Has significant character, interest or value as part of the development, heritage or cultural characteristics of the City, Commonwealth or Nation or is associated with the life of a person significant in the past; or, ☐ (b) Is associated with an event of importance to the history of the City, Commonwealth or Nation; or, X (c) Reflects the environment in an era characterized by a distinctive architectural style; or, X (d) Embodies distinguishing characteristics of an architectural style or engineering specimen; or, X (e) Is the work of a designer, architect, landscape architect or designer, or engineer whose work has significantly influenced the historical, architectural, economic, social, or cultural development of the City, Commonwealth or Nation; or, ☐ (f) Contains elements of design, detail, materials or craftsmanship which represent a significant innovation; or, ☐ (g) Is part of or related to a square, park or other distinctive area which should be preserved according to an historic, cultural or architectural motif; or, ☐ (h) Owing to its unique location or singular physical characteristic, represents an established and familiar visual feature of the neighborhood, community or City; or, ☐ (i) Has yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in pre-history or history; or X (j) Exemplifies the cultural, political, economic, social or historical heritage of the community. 8. MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES See attached. 9. NOMINATOR Organization N/A Date Dec 26, 2017 Name with Title Noah Yoder Email [email protected] Street Address 164 N. 3rd Street Apt. 3F Telephone 740-506-4227 City, State, and Postal Code 19106-1876 Nominator ☐ is X is not the property owner. PHC USE ONLY Date of Receipt:_________________________________________________________________12/26/2017 ______ ☐X Correct-Complete ☐ Incorrect-Incomplete Date:_________________________________4/17/2018 Date of Notice Issuance:_________________________________________________________________5/14/2018 Property Owner at Time of Notice Name:_________________________________________________________________________Bushfire Theatre of Performing Arts Address:_______________________________________________________________________228-36 S. 52nd Street ______________________________________________________________________________ City:_______________________________________Philadelphia State:____PA Postal Code:_________19139 Date(s) Reviewed by the Committee on Historic Designation:____________________________________6/20/2018 Date(s) Reviewed by the Historical Commission:______________________________________________11/9/2018 Date of Final Action:__________________________________________________________11/9/2018 ☐X Designated ☐ Rejected 3/12/18 5. Boundary Description All that certain lot or piece of ground with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, Situated at the Northwest corner of 52nd and Locust Streets, in the 60th Ward of the City of Philadelphia. Containing in front or breadth on the said 52nd Street ninety feet three inches and extending of that width in length or depth westwardly, the southernmost line along the North side of Locust Street, seventy feet (fig 1).1 Figure 1. Aerial photograph of the parcel, showing the boundary in red. Source: Philadelphia Water Department. 1 “Deed of Sale from John C. Boyle to Alfred Simpkins,” (Philadelphia, PA), May 23, 1985, no. 42059685, book 155, 536. The Locust Theatre, 228-36 South 52nd Street, Nomination for the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places 1 6. Building Description The Locust Theatre building is located at 228-36 South 52nd Street in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood of West Philadelphia. It is a part of the 52nd street “strip,” a prominent commercial district that serves several West Philadelphia neighborhoods. The building is currently known as “The Bushfire Theatre of Performing Arts,” but in this nomination will be referred to by its original name, “The Locust Theatre.” The one-story building was built in the Beaux-Arts classical style and features a hipped roof, a cornice, and a parapet (fig 2). The facade features granite and tan brick components, but is primarily defined by its extensive use of terra cotta ornament glazed to resemble stone (fig 3). The three public-facing sides of the building are divided into a chamfered entry elevation and seven bays articulated from one another by rusticated Piers. The south-facing elevation features three bays, while the east-facing elevation features four (fig 4). Figure 2. The Locust Theatre building, now called the Bushfire Theatre of Performing Arts.2 All seven bays are composed of either a granite base or stairs mounted by a brick field containing either a set of doors or a poster case (fig 4). The brick fields are traced by a terra cotta waterleaf banding crested by a rosette (fig 5). Just under the entablature on each bay is a set of three square windows divided by ornate mullions (fig 5, 6). The piers are composed of a stone base beneath a field of rusticated terra cotta masonry, topped with a terra cotta cartouche featuring a lyre motif (fig 7). Each pier projects through the cornice, terminating in a plinth decorated with a rosette and garlands, and crested by scrollwork that once held a globe light (fig 7). 2 All photographs by author, December 2017, unless otherwise noted. The Locust Theatre, 228-36 South 52nd Street, Nomination for the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places 2 Figure 3. Two close ups of the Locust’s white and black speckled terra cotta, meant to resemble stone. Figure 4. The west and south facing facades of the Locust, featuring seven bays separated by rusticated piers. The Locust Theatre, 228-36 South 52nd Street, Nomination for the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places 3 Figure 5. A detail of one of the Locust’s bays featuring the waterleaf banding and row of windows common to all seven bays. Figure 7. The top of one of the Locust’s piers, featuring a cartouche with a lyre pattern and a decorative plinth that once held a Figure 6. globe light. Note An example the light bulbs still of the embedded in the Locust’s cartouche and decorative between the mullions . corbels. The Locust Theatre, 228-36 South 52nd Street, Nomination for the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places 4 The masonry of the chamfered front of the Locust Theatre is entirely terra cotta. Two rusticated piers support a broad entablature (fig 8). Between the piers is a row of three arched windows with alternating Doric pilasters (fig 9). The entablature includes a decorative frieze emblazoned with “THE LOCUST,” and is terminated by cartouches at either end (fig 10). These cartouches are adorned with garlands and once anchored chains supporting the Theatre’s original marquee (fig 11). Egg-and-dart molding runs along the top of the frieze where corbels support a cornice, which is in turn capped by a parapet and a great central cartouche. This cartouche is ornamented with garlands and scrollwork, as well as a mascaron and scallop shell motif. Two classical figures flank the cartouche, the left holding a harp, and the right holding a lyre (fig 12, 13). Regrettably, the two figures have been removed from the waist up. Below the chamfered elevation’s terra cotta facade is a contemporary stick built entry, the most recent of many permutations of the Locust’s marquee (fig. 2, 14, 15). Figure 8. The Locust’s chamfered front entry done entirely in terra cotta. As with the marquee, the Locust Theatre’s original design included several grandiose elements that have been altered or removed in the Theatre’s long history. The interior was lined with crystal sconces and silk panels, and had a seating capacity of 700.3 At night, the exterior of the building was lit by globe lights that topped each rusticated pier, along with numerous light bulbs embedded in the Theatre’s facade. Though these globes have been removed, the nonfunctioning light bulbs can still be seen on the Locust’s many cartouches and its cornice (fig 7). The arched windows above the main entry and those lining the underside of the cornice were originally decorated in heavily worked stained glass, but are now boarded
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