Beckwith Theater Traditional Cache
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Beckwith Theatre used to be located on this site.
In 1892 in memory of PD Beckwith, his daughter Kate and son-in-law, Fred Lee built the Beckwith Memorial Theatre in the downtown at Front and Beeson streets. Regarded as one of the finest theatres between New York and Chicago, it hosted such well-known names as William S. Hart, Roland Reed, Robert Mantell, Otis Skinner and J.P. Sousa
The building also contained space used for a bank, city hall and Round Oak Company offices. The busts that decorated the building's exterior included Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Emerson, Whitman, Shakespeare, Sarah Bernhardt and Susan B. Anthony. When the building was razed in 1966, the busts were salvaged. Eight are today used in columns standing at the entrance to the Lyons Building at Southwestern Michigan College in Dowagiac.
A building as added to this lot several years ago. It houses a bank. If you look at the front wall where the bank building and the restaurant building join together you can see some red large sandstone blocks. They are all that remain of the Beckwith Theatre.
I used some urban camo to hide this cache Because of the high muggle factor here.
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