Historic theater building

Few spaces combine visual splendor and colorful history like America's great old theaters

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Few spaces combine visual splendor and colorful history like America's great old theaters

NORSHORE Theatre; demolished. 1749 W. Howard Street, Chicago

Foster + Partners designs Apple Store in historic Tower Theatre

Loew’s Kings Theater, Brooklyn NY

Pantages Theatre Minneapolis, Minnesota: Restoration: Stage right from the Balcony. The historic Pantages Theatre, originally built as a vaudeville house in 1916, was fully renovated with thoughtful and thorough restoration. The 1000-seat house is complete with ornate plaster, decorative painting, stained glass and an acoustic accelerator under the balcony. New stage lighting and rigging systems and a new orchestra pit.

The historic Tower Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, CA was the original home to the first theater in LA wired for film and sound. A team of leading preservationists, restoration artists, and the City of Los Angeles worked together to thoughtfully preserve and restore the theater’s beauty and grandeur. Targetti DART SMALL and MEDIUM floodlight projectors are used throughout the facade to illuminate the stunning exterior architectural details.

$4MM Neo-Baroque French-Revival theater designed for the Balaban & Katz chain by Cornelius W. Rapp and George L. Rapp (Rapp & Rapp) • 3,600 seats, auditorium 7 stories high, half-city-block wide • billed as "the Wonder Theatre of the World" • exterior features 6-story miniature replica of Arc de Triomphe, Paris • grand lobby design modeled after Chapel Royal, Versailles • grand staircase patterned after Paris Opera House • 29-rank Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ National Register of Historic…

The Florida Theatre opened in 1927 and was designed in the Mediterranean Revival style with accommodations for both live performances and motion pictures. In 2020 upgrades to the theatre included replacing all but two of the chairs, which were restored and reinstalled for Jay, the Theatre's resident ghost.

Monumental captures by Hungarian architectural and interiors photographer György Palkó.

THE SAENGER THEATRE, New Orleans: what is called an atmospheric house. Many movie palaces were designed like this and in them the clouds moved across the sky and the stars twinkled. The pipes for the organ were (maybe still are) between the two columns on each side of the proscenium.

The New Orpheum Theatre cost approximately $2,000,000 to build, an extraordinary sum of money at that time. The New Orpheum Theatre opened April 30...

The facade will be repurposed as an archway in the new Monroe Blocks development.