Background
John Oldaker Pridmore was born in 1867 in England, United Kingdom.
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Church of the Atonement, Chicago
1915
old Cort Theatre, Chicago
(on Dearborn Street, built in 1912 (no longer standing))
on Dearborn Street, built in 1912 (no longer standing)
JOHN OLDAKER PRIDMORE
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He was a graduate of Greenhill College in Birmingham.
Career
He migrated to the U S. in 1880, and three years later settled in Chicago. There Mr. Pridmore was active in architectural practice over a period of fifty years, and while he designed varied types of buildings, was best known for his church and theatre work. Noted examples of the latter were the old Cort Theatre on Dearborn Street, built in 1912 (no longer standing); Church of the Atonement, 1915: the Adelphi, Sheridan and Princess Theatres (Moving Picture Houses). He was also architect of the Iroquois Memorial Hospital, 1911 and the Austin Hospital; The Manor House, 1912, and St. John’s Chapel at the University of Chicago, and the State Theatre at Minneapolis, Minn., 1922.
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