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- Description:
- When the Michigan Theatre was partially demolished and renovated into office space in the 1980s, this 1928 Barton Theatre Organ was moved to the Grand Ledge Opera House and used in the creation of a new hybrid organ with parts from one other 1920s vintage instrument.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Was also called Strand Theatre.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Theaters in Lansing, Michigan. This series includes sets, stills from live productions, and other interior photographs in addition to exteriors of theater buildings.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- A street scene showing the Lansing State Savings Bank, Otto Ziegler Cigars, and the Imes Studio (2nd floor) at 101-103 South Washington Avenue. The intersection at left is with Michigan Avenue. Looking down, Briggs Real Estate and the Colonial Theatre can be seen.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Michigan Theater and several other storefronts are visible.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Located at 125 West Michigan Avenue. Photo shows fire of 1923. The Regent Theater marquee can be seen at left.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Strand Theater is in the foreground and several other storefronts are visible.
- Date Created:
- 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- This office center was formerly the Michigan Theatre and was repurposed after the theater closed. Located at 215 South Washington Square.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Was called Michigan Theatre at other times.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Seven unidentified students in a theater performance at Walter French Junior High School.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- A plaque from the dedication of the Strand Theatre, which would later become the Michigan Theatre.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- See second image for more information.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Was called Strand Theatre at other times.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Text reads: "Daniel J. Buck left his print on early Lansing when he erected, in 1872, 'Buck's Opera House,' occupied by the Gladmer theater today. It stood across Ionia street from his furniture store, at Washington avenue. The old Buck residence, just west of the theater, is also seen in this picture." Two copies. Originally part of the Carl Dalrymple Collection.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photo a shows "Mr. Roberts." Photo d shows "Abe Lincoln in Illinois."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Was called Michigan Theatre at other times.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Located at 204 Washington Avenue North.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Four unidentified students in a theater performance at Walter French Junior High School.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Was called Strand Theatre at other times.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Date Created:
- 1930-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Construction of the Strand Theatre which was later named the Michigan Theatre.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Was called Michigan Theatre at other times.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- See second image for more information.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Building is at 425 South Grand Avenue. It was home to the Boars Head Theatre, and was torn down in 2012.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Three actors in costume on stage in an unidentified production in the Walter French Junior High School theater.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Located on the Southeast corner of Capitol Avenue and Michigan Avenue at 121 West Michigan Avenue. This building burned down and later became Hotel Olds. The Bijou Theatre sign can be seen.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- A crowd on the sidewalk, outside the Strand Theatre in the 200 block of South Washington Avenue.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Five unidentified students in a theater performance at Walter French Junior High School.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Was called Strand Theatre at other times. Photo shows the lounge outside ballroom on the second floor. Multicolored ceiling plasters and amber skylights are visible. Virgiline Simmons School of Dance used the area for 25 years.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Located at 233 North Washington Avenue at the Southwest corner of North Washington and Ionia. Two copies.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Two views. Was called Michigan Theatre at other times. Advertisement is for "April Follies" and the screen attraction was Norma Shearer in "The Demi-Bride," making this circa 1927.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Was called Strand Theatre at other times. Shows theatre after it was art deco'd and renamed. Marquee reads "Fredric March and Martha Scott in One Foot in Heaven Also Fox News & Cartoon."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photo shows a man being made up to look like Abraham Lincoln before the show. The actor and makeup artist are not identified. This show was held at the Lansing Sexton High School Auditorium beginning on February 11, 1953.
- Date Created:
- 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Located at 125 West Michigan Avenue. Photo shows fire of 1923. The Regent Theater marquee can be seen at left.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- A street scene showing the Lansing State Savings Bank, Otto Ziegler Cigars, and the Imes Studio (2nd floor) at 101-103 South Washington Avenue. The intersection at left is with Michigan Avenue. Looking down, Briggs Real Estate and the Colonial Theatre can be seen.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- When the Michigan Theatre was partially demolished and renovated into office space in the 1980s, this 1928 Barton Theatre Organ was moved to the Grand Ledge Opera House and used in the creation of a new hybrid organ with parts from one other 1920s vintage instrument.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Strand Theater is in the foreground and several other storefronts are visible.
- Date Created:
- 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Was called Michigan Theatre at other times.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Michigan Theater and several other storefronts are visible.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Located at 204 Washington Avenue North.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Was called Michigan Theatre at other times.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Text reads: "Daniel J. Buck left his print on early Lansing when he erected, in 1872, 'Buck's Opera House,' occupied by the Gladmer theater today. It stood across Ionia street from his furniture store, at Washington avenue. The old Buck residence, just west of the theater, is also seen in this picture." Two copies. Originally part of the Carl Dalrymple Collection.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Located on the Southeast corner of Capitol Avenue and Michigan Avenue at 121 West Michigan Avenue. This building burned down and later became Hotel Olds. The Bijou Theatre sign can be seen.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photo a shows "Mr. Roberts." Photo d shows "Abe Lincoln in Illinois."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Construction of the Strand Theatre which was later named the Michigan Theatre.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Building is at 425 South Grand Avenue. It was home to the Boars Head Theatre, and was torn down in 2012.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- See second image for more information.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Was also called Strand Theatre.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Was called Strand Theatre at other times.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- This office center was formerly the Michigan Theatre and was repurposed after the theater closed. Located at 215 South Washington Square.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- See second image for more information.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Theaters in Lansing, Michigan. This series includes sets, stills from live productions, and other interior photographs in addition to exteriors of theater buildings.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Seven unidentified students in a theater performance at Walter French Junior High School.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- A crowd on the sidewalk, outside the Strand Theatre in the 200 block of South Washington Avenue.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Was called Strand Theatre at other times. Photo shows the lounge outside ballroom on the second floor. Multicolored ceiling plasters and amber skylights are visible. Virgiline Simmons School of Dance used the area for 25 years.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Five unidentified students in a theater performance at Walter French Junior High School.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Date Created:
- 1930-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Four unidentified students in a theater performance at Walter French Junior High School.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Was called Strand Theatre at other times.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Was called Michigan Theatre at other times.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- A plaque from the dedication of the Strand Theatre, which would later become the Michigan Theatre.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Located at 233 North Washington Avenue at the Southwest corner of North Washington and Ionia. Two copies.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Three actors in costume on stage in an unidentified production in the Walter French Junior High School theater.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Two views. Was called Michigan Theatre at other times. Advertisement is for "April Follies" and the screen attraction was Norma Shearer in "The Demi-Bride," making this circa 1927.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Was called Strand Theatre at other times. Shows theatre after it was art deco'd and renamed. Marquee reads "Fredric March and Martha Scott in One Foot in Heaven Also Fox News & Cartoon."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photo shows a man being made up to look like Abraham Lincoln before the show. The actor and makeup artist are not identified. This show was held at the Lansing Sexton High School Auditorium beginning on February 11, 1953.
- Date Created:
- 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection