"Ballroom Burning"
Below is a list of ballrooms that have been destroyed by fire.
If you know of any others that fit this criteria and are not on the list,
please let me know! Thank you!


Name City, State Built Destroyed
By Fire
Aragon Ballroom Houston, TX ? July 13, 1945
Carter Lake Club Ballroom Omaha, NE ? 1975
Chermot Ballroom Omaha, NE   1943
Chippewa Lake Ballroom Chippewa Lake, OH 1878 June 13, 2002
Coliseum Ballroom Benld, IL 1924 July 31, 2011
Crystal Ballroom Reading, PA ? August 1968
(arson)
Danceland Ballroom Brookside, MN ? July 8, 1973
Dreamland Ballroom Pittsburgh, PA 1909 Feb. 1, 2008
(arson)
Egyptian Ballroom Ocean Park, CA 1925 Aug. 30, 1971
Evergreen Ballroom Lacey, WA 1932 July 21, 2000
Glovera Ballroom Grand Island, NE 1912 Sept. 30, 1954
Golden Glow Ballroom Swan Creek, MI ? Sept. 19, 2009
Grand Prospect Ballroom Brooklyn, NY ? 1900
Hub Ballroom Edelstein, IL ? June 24, 2009
Idora Park Ballroom Youngstown, OH ? March 5, 2001
Lakeside Ballroom Glenwood, MN ? 2003
Maduras Danceland Ballroom Hammond, IN October 1929 July 20, 1967
(lightning strike)
Matter's Ballroom Decorah, IA 1916 March 2003
Midway Ballroom Cedar Lake, IN ? April 1987
Palomar Ballroom Los Angeles, CA ? Oct. 2, 1939
Paradise Ballroom
(Guyon's Paradise Ballroom)
Chicago, IL circa 1917 Sept. 9, 1972
People's Ballroom Ann Arbor, MI ? Dec. 15, 1972
Rendezvous Ballroom Balboa, CA ? Jan. 27, 1935
Aug. 7, 1966
Starlight Ballroom Wildwood, NJ ? 1981
Tango Ballroom Wausau, WI ? April 11, 2011
Terp Ballroom Austin, MN ? Nov. 1945
Willowbrook Ballroom Willow Springs, IL 1921 Oct. 28, 2016


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