Louis Magaziner

Education

Born in Hungary, he came to the United States. with his parents and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania as an architect in 1900.

Career

His firms included Magaziner, Eberhard & Harris, credited with the design of eight theaters including the Broadway Theatre at 43 South. 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 West. Main Street in Lansdale, Pennsylvania(since demolished).

Media Theatre for the Performing Arts at 104 East. State Street in Media, Pennsylvania. Midway Theatre at 1835 East. Allegheny Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ogontz Theatre at 6033 Ogontz Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Rockland Theater at 4910 North. Broad Street in Philadelphia.

Uptown Theatre (Philadelphia) at 2240-2248 North. Broad Street in Philadelphia. The Broadway and Media theaters remain open.

lieutenant 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. He graduated from Central High School in 1896 and received his Bachelor of Surgery in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania in 1900.

Magaziner worked at firms including Frederick Mann, Cope & Stewardson, Albert Kelsey, and Newman & Harris (as head draftsman) before establishing his own firm, Magaziner & Potter, with William Woodburn Potter in 1907.

The firm lasted until 1917 and was followed up by other partnerships including Magaziner & Eberhard. Magaziner, Eberhard & Harris, and Louis & Henry Magaziner.

His firms produced theaters, mansions, colleges, hospitals, clubs, and banks. He wrote the books The Golden Age of Iron Work and Our Liberty Bell.

The Henry Magaziner Award is given by the Philadelphia branch of the American Institutes for Architecture.

Achievements

• Magaziner became a member of the American Institute of Architects in 1942. Practiced in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Ohio. And was a founder of the Homewood School (formerly known as the Hebrew Sheltering Home).