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1903 · 240651 — Chicago: Iroquois Theatre Thomas J. Noonan 1903 . First edition. Hardcover. Good minus. 8vo 93 pages variant red cloth all edges gilt covers lightly stained lower corner of rear cover a bit "chewed". Scarce <br/><br/>Less than six weeks after Chicago's grandest new theater opened it burned to the ground due to flagrant safety violations and corruption. More than 600 died in America's worst theater disaster. It resulted in new codes requiring outward-opening safety doors. This hardcover book appeared before the opening performance. It relates a history of the theatres in Chicago by Charles E. Nixon; tells why this magnificent venue was built and how with illustrations of the theatre plans and interiors and furnishings. "The Iroquois . will impress even the most superficial observer by its beauty and grandeur . The style architecturally is French renaissance which has a strong suggestion of the classic. designed by architect Benjamin H. Marshall ." Illustrated and with plates of posters and of the builders and equipment suppliers to the theatre. Iroquois Theatre, Thomas J. Noonan hardcover