The story
The third-largest theater in America when it opened, this $4.5 million French rococo palace was saved from demolition and is now a premier concert venue.
Everything that was here
- 1927–present · still open
Midland TheatreTheater
The third-largest theater in America when it opened, this $4.5 million French rococo palace was saved from demolition and is now a premier concert venue.
See the map in 1928 → - 1919–1969
Newman TheatreTheater
The biggest and most opulent theater Kansas City had ever seen, with a young Thomas Hart Benton's murals 'precisely and simply demolished' when no one bothered to save them.
See the map in 1920 →
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