Editing Rapp and Rapp (section)

{{Short description|American architecture firm}}
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| architects            = C. Ward Rapp; George L. Rapp; Mason G. Rapp
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[[File:The historic Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois LCCN2011632297.tif|thumb|The [[Chicago Theatre]], designed by the Rapps for [[Balaban & Katz]] and completed in 1921.]]
[[Image:Chicago, Illinois Uptown Theater1.jpg|thumb|The [[Uptown Theatre (Chicago)|Uptown Theatre]] in Chicago, completed in 1925.]]
[[Image:Sheas.jpg|thumb|[[Shea's Performing Arts Center]], originally Shea's Buffalo, completed in 1926.]]
[[File:USA-NYC-Paramount Building.JPG|thumb|The [[Paramount Building]] in Times Square, [[New York City]], completed in 1927.]]
[[Image:20070530 203 North Wabash (2).JPG|thumb|The [[Old Dearborn Bank Building]] in [[Chicago]], completed in 1928.]]
[[Image:Paramount Theater Denver CO.jpg|thumb|The [[Paramount Theatre (Denver)|Paramount Theatre]] in [[Denver]], completed in 1930.]]
'''C. W. & George L. Rapp''', commonly known as '''Rapp & Rapp''', was an American [[architectural firm]] famed for the design of [[movie palaces]] and other theatres. Active from 1906 to 1965 and based in [[Chicago]], the office designed over 400 theatres, including the [[Chicago Theatre]] (1921), [[Bismarck Hotel]] and Theatre (1926) and Oriental Theater (1926) in Chicago, the [[Five Flags Center]] (1910) in [[Dubuque, Iowa]] and the Paramount Theatres in [[New York City]] (1926) and [[Aurora, Illinois]] (1931).
[[File:Warner Grand Theater Milwaukee Wisconsin looking east.jpg|thumb|[[Warner Grand Theater (Milwaukee)]] Wisconsin built in 1931]]

The named partners were brothers C. Ward Rapp (1860–1926) and George L. Rapp (1878–1941), sons of a builder and natives of [[Carbondale, Illinois]]. Their Chicago practice is not to be confused with the [[Trinidad, Colorado]] practice of their brothers [[Isaac H. Rapp]] (1854–1933) and [[William M. Rapp]] (1863–1920) or the notable [[Cincinnati]] architects George W. Rapp and [[Walter L. Rapp]], to whom they were not related.