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Benjamin Marcus Priteca FAIA (23 December 1889 – 1 October 1971) was a Scottish architect. He is best known for designing theatres for Alexander Pantages.
Dec 12, 2008 · Scottish-born B. Marcus Priteca (1889-1971) arrived in Seattle around the time of the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. An architect specializing in classical design, a chance encounter with vaudeville magnate Alexander Pantages (1876-1936) led to his first major project, a Pantages venue in San Francisco. It was the beginning of a fruitful ...
The Hollywood Pantages Theatre, formerly known as RKO Pantages Theatre, is located at Hollywood and Vine in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. Designed by architect B. Marcus Priteca, it was the last theater built by the vaudeville impresario Alexander Pantages.
Priteca was the personal architect to theater magnate Alexander Pantages, and designed all of Pantages' theaters between 1910 and 1929. An inspiration for Seattle's Coliseum Theatre was Priteca's earlier Crystal Pool building (1914) at 2nd and Lenora.
Principal, B. Marcus Priteca, Architect, Seattle, WA, 1912-c. 1964. Priteca was retained as architect for all Pantages Theatres designed between 1910 and 1929, numbering approximately 30. Made possible by Pantages's backing, he opened a Seattle office in Rooms #262-263 of the Empire Building by 1912.
PRITECA, Benjamin Marcus (1889-1971), active in Seattle, Wash. and a prolific theatre architect credited with the design of more than one hundred and fifty theatre buildings in the United States and Canada.
Known during his career as the Pacific Northwest's leading architect, Priteca designed over 150 theaters for four different theater chain clients.
