File:Gayety Theatre, 405 East Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD HABS MD-1123-1.tif

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Gayety Theatre, 405 East Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD
Photographer
James W. Rosenthal
Title
Gayety Theatre, 405 East Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD
Description
J.B. McElfatrick and Sons; McElfatrick, John Bailey; Gilbert, Howard M; Nickel, John "Hon"; Nickel, John H; McKew, Marion; Engel, Frank; Gresser, Jack; Abbott and Costello; Silvers, Phil; Gleason, Jackie; Skelton, Red; Lee, Gypsy Rose; Starr, Blaze; Rand, Sally; Parks, Valerie; Corio, Ann; Rosenthal, James W, photographer; Ossman, J Laurie, historian
Depicted place Maryland; Independent City; Baltimore
Date 2001
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS MD-1123-1
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  • Significance: The Gayety Theatre is the oldest remaining burlesque theater in Baltimore. This section of Baltimore Street is locally known as "The Block," and constitutes the last vestige of an area of the city primarily known, from World War I to the 1970s for the preponderance of adult-theme businesses, such as bars, bookshops, arcades and burlesque theaters. "The Block" is characterized by two and three story early-twentieth-century masonry commercial buildings (most greatly altered at pedestrian level) and is contained, to the east, by the massive concrete police station, built ca. 1982, and to the north, by a 14-story brick city office building erected in 1983. The elaborate ornament of the Gayety facade typifies the exuberance of turn-of-the-twentieth-century theater design as a sub-genre, in this case drawing on both Baroque and Art Nouveau ornament for its eye-catching and fanciful decorative vocabulary.
  • Survey number: HABS MD-1123
  • Building/structure dates: 1905 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: after 1969 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1984 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/md1570.photos.210760p
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