Background
Thomas White Lamb was born in 1871 in Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom. Migrating to the U. S. when a young man.
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Thomas White Lamb was born in 1871 in Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom. Migrating to the U. S. when a young man.
He received an architectural training in New York, and during subsequent years of professional practice attained national prominence in designing large modern theatres in New York, Boston, Kansas City and many other cities.
He studied architecture at Cooper Union in New York and initially worked for the City of New York as an inspector.
In New York Mr. Lamb's most important work was the present Madison Square Garden; the Capitol Theatre, built in 1919; Keith's on West 84th Street; Ziegfeld's on 42nd Street; Loews several theatres, and the Pythian Temple. He was also architect of Loews Theatre in Kansas City, the Fox Theatre Building in Philadelphia, the Fox Memorial Theatre in Boston, and the Community Theatre at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. In addition he designed theatres which were built in England, Australia, North Africa, India and Egypt. During later years Mr. Lamb turned his attention to Moving Picture Houses and was equally successful in planning many such theatres in New York and other U. S. cities.