John Jacob Zink (1886–1952) was an American architect who designed movie houses in

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Life

He studied at the

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(now known as Maryland Institute College of Art), and graduated in 1904. He apprenticed with Wyatt and Nolting and William H. Hodges. In the evenings he studied at the

Columbia School of Architecture Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) is the architecture school of Columbia University, a private research university in New York City. It is regarded as an important and highly prestigious architecture school.

and worked with architect

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. He worked for Ewald G. Blanke, a famous Baltimore architect from 1916 to 1924. Their firm of Blanke and Zink was located at 835 Equitable Building in Baltimore City. In the early 1920s, he started his own design firm. He was a

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architect. Employing modest designs, he concentrated on details, such as views, lighting and acoustics. He incorporated such amenities as nurseries, lounges and smoking rooms.

Works

*1921 Century Theatre, Baltimore, MD *1923 Takoma Theater, Takoma Park, MD *1926 Colony Theater, Washington, D.C. *1926 Tivoli Theatre (now Weinberg Center for the Arts), Frederick, MD *1930 Patterson Theater, Baltimore, MD Carver Theater, First Home of the ANM

*1932 Grandin Theatre, Roanoke, VA *1935 Ambassador Theater, Baltimore, MD *1936 Uptown Theater, Washington, D.C. *1937 Newton Theater, Washington, D.C. *1938

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, Washington, D.C. *1939

Senator Theatre The Senator Theatre is a historic Art Deco movie theater on York Road in the Govans section of Baltimore, Maryland. It is the oldest operating movie theater in central Maryland and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a d ...

, Baltimore, MD *1939 Congress Theater, Washington, D.C. *1940 Apex Theater, Washington, D.C. *1940 Village Theater, Washington, D.C. *1942 Senator Theater, Washington, D.C. *1945 Langston Theater, Washington, D.C. *1945 Commodore Theater, Portsmouth, VA *1946 Naylor Theater, Washington, D.C. *1948 Carver Theater, Anacostia, Washington, D.C. *circa late 1940s Capital Theatre, Annapolis, MD *1950 Flower Theatre, Silver Spring, MD *1952 Langley Theatre, Langley Park, MD Langley Theatre in Langley Park, MD - Cinema Treasures
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* * 20th-century American architects 1886 births 1952 deaths Architects from Baltimore Maryland Institute College of Art alumni Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation alumni {{US-architect-stub