Frank Cox

Tignal Franklin Cox (1854–1940) was an American artist and theater architect. He worked as a scenic artist, decorator, builder, architect, and developer.

Biography Cox started his artistic career in the 1880s having painted backdrop curtains for the Opera House in Batavia, New York (1883) and the Academy of Music in Auburn, New York (1884). In 1885 he became the scenic artist for Smith's Opera Houses in Tarrytown, New York, and in Batavia.

He designed more than 50 theaters for the Klaw & Erlanger company. His work includes the New Lyceum Theatre in Atlanta (destroyed by fire in 1901). Existing theaters he designed include the Morton Theatre in Athens, Georgia, Majestic Theatre at Streator, Illinois (1907) and the Grand Opera House in Galveston, Texas. Built for vaudeville, they were readapted as times changed and uses included burlesque shows and movies. Other, now demolished, theaters he designed included the Lyceum Theatre in Memphis, Tennessee and the Hippodrome Theatre in Alton, Illinois