A three-story downtown front three bays wide, its upper floors faced in banded rusticated stone. The second story centered on a pedimented tripartite window flanked by paired windows under bracketed cornices, with smaller openings lining the third floor beneath a deep bracketed sheet-metal cornice. At street level a wide central entrance sat between two arched side openings, one carrying a fire-escape stair, under a projecting marquee with a curved underside. Ornate cast-metal brackets and a tall vertical blade sign rose above the marquee at the sidewalk.
The Lyric Theatre opened in 1910 at 114 North Sixth Street, at the south end of a downtown row of about seven theaters and directly across from the Capitol Theatre. It seated 555 by 1927 and ran continuous programs of feature and second-run films; its success is credited with prompting the later West End Lyric. The Lyric closed as a movie house in December 1957, reopened briefly as a burlesque house in January 1958, and closed for good that May. It was demolished in early 1963.
