Louis Magaziner, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetLouis Magaziner
American architect
Date of Birth: 07-Mar-1878
Date of Death: 19-May-1956
Profession: architect
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Louis Magaziner
- Louis Magaziner (March 7, 1878 - May 19, 1956) was the senior partner of a series of architectural firms based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Born in Hungary, he came to the U.S.
- with his parents and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania as an architect in 1900.His firms included Magaziner, Eberhard & Harris, credited with the design of eight theaters including the Broadway Theatre at 43 S.
- Broadway in Pitman, New Jersey; Felton Theatre (1925 remodel of 1919 building) at 4800 Rising Sun Avenue in Philadelphia (since converted into a supper club); Lansdale Theater at 545 W.
- Main Street in Lansdale, PA (since demolished); Media Theatre for the Performing Arts at 104 E.
- State Street in Media, PA; Midway Theatre at 1835 E.
- Allegheny Avenue in Philadelphia, PA; Ogontz Theatre at 6033 Ogontz Avenue in Philadelphia, PA; Rockland Theater at 4910 N.
- Broad Street in Philadelphia; Uptown Theatre (Philadelphia) at 2240-2248 N.
- Broad Street in Philadelphia.
- The Broadway and Media theaters remain open. The firm also designed the Wingwood House in Bar Harbor, Maine (1927) for Edward T.
- Stotesbury and his second wife.
- It was demolished in 1953.The later works of his career were austere and modernist.
- These included the Sidney Hillman Medical Center (demolished in 2011), and a Conservative Synagogue (1949) at 53rd and Euclid Streets in Philadelphia.The Magaziner Collection of architectural drawings is held at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia.
- Magaziner, Eberhard & Harris was a going concern from 1922 until 1930.
- His son Louis Magaziner's son Henry Magaziner was a well respected architectural preservationist and author in Philadelphia.
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