Thomas W. Lamb

Thomas White Lamb ( born May 5, 1870 in Dundee, Scotland; according to any other indication in 1871, † February 26, 1942 in Elizabethtown, New York ) was an American architect of Scottish origin, mainly on the design of theaters and Kinsosälen specialized.

Life and work

Thomas W. Lamb came at the age of twelve years in the United States and studied architecture at the Cooper Union. After a few years in the public service, he started his own business and became one of the most sought-after theater architects. His film palaces were numerous halls of the Fox Theatres and Loew's Theatres. Among his best known works include the Fox Theatre in San Francisco and the 1919 Capitol Theatre in New York, both demolished. The preserved the B. F. Keith Memorial Theatre in Boston (1928 ) (now the Boston Opera House, Warner 's Hollywood Theatre ( 1930) in New York).