Thomas W. Lamb

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This article is about Thomas W. Lamb, American theater designer. For the industrial designer, see Thomas Lamb

Interior of the B.F. Keith Memorial Theatre, Boston, designed by Lamb and opened in 1928.

Lobby of the Capitol Cinema in Ottawa, Canada, considered one of the best theatres designed by Lamb.

Thomas White Lamb (1871 - 1942) was one of the foremost American theater and cinema architects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is noted for designing New York's Ziegfeld Theatre, as well as Madison Square Garden. Lamb's architectural archive is held by the Drawings and Archives Department of Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University.

[edit] Selected theaters designed by Lamb

United States
- Academy of Music, New York City (later became The Palladium nightclub)
- B.F. Keith Memorial Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts
- Capitol Theater, New York City, 1919
- Cort Theatre, New York City, 1912
- Fox Theatre (San Francisco), San Francisco, California, 1929
- Keith-Albee Theatre, Huntington, West Virginia, 1928
- Landmark Theatre, originally Loew's State Theatre, Syracuse, New York, 1928
- Loew's 72nd Street Theatre, New York City, 1930
- Loew's State Theatre, Times Square, New York City, 1924
- Madison Square Garden, New York City, 1925
- Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City, 1930
- Mark Strand Theater, New York City, 1914
- Midland Theatre, Kansas City, Missouri, 1927
- Municipal Auditorium, Birmingham, Alabama, 1924
- Ohio Theater, Playhouse Square Center, Cleveland, Ohio, 1921
- Ohio Theatre, Columbus, Ohio, 1928
- Pitkin Theatre, Brooklyn NY, 1928
- Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady, New York, 1926
- Regent Theater, New York City, 1913
- Rivoli Theatre, New York City
- RKO Keith's Theatre, Flushing, New York
- Stanley Theater, Utica, New York, 1928
- Strand Theater, Lakewood, NJ
- State Theater, Playhouse Square Center, Cleveland, Ohio, 1920
- State Theatre Center for the Arts, Uniontown, Pennsylvania, 1922
- United Palace Theater, New York City (originally Loew's 175th Street Theater), 1930
- Victoria Theater, New York City, 1917
- Warner Theatre, Torrington, Connecticut, 1931
- Ziegfeld Theatre, New York City (with Joseph Urban), 1927
- Ridgewood Theatre, Ridgewood, New York

Canada

India
- Metro Cinema, Mumbai

[edit] Residential Architecture

In 1920, Lamb designed for himself a private summer home in the Adirondacks in the village of Elizabethtown, New York. The house, which is still extant as a residence, is situated on the Boquet River. The eight-bedroom manor, referred to today as Cobble Mountain Lodge, is a shingle and cobble stone design marked by the whimsy of a stone turret.