Luigi De Marchi, architect, is the editor and publisher of Cultural Heritage Online. He founded the archive in 1998 as beniculturalionline.it and has published it without interruption since.
Contributions: 6 articles · 1,209 heritage places · 8 itineraries · 2 road-books
Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Granada Theatre on Commercial Street in Emporia, Kansas brought Art Deco cinema architecture to the Flint Hills region in a city whose civic culture was shaped by the nationally influential journalism of William Allen White’s Emporia Gazette.
Opened in 1932 as Paramount Pictures’ flagship Boston cinema, the Paramount Theatre on Washington Street brought Art Deco movie palace architecture to the Theater District. Now operated by Emerson College as a performing arts venue, it is one of the most significant cinema preservation stories in New England.
Opened in 1939 on King Street in the heart of Charleston’s historic peninsula, the Riviera Theatre brought Art Deco cinema to one of America’s oldest cities and now operates as a concert venue on the National Register’s King Street Historic District.
A compact Art Deco movie house in Tacoma’s lower Broadway Theater Historic District, the Rialto Theatre represents the commercial entertainment infrastructure of a 1930s Pacific Northwest port city whose industrial economy was building toward the wartime shipyard boom of 1941-1945.
Built in 1927 on North Fourth Street in Wausau, Wisconsin, the Grand Theatre has served Marathon County’s performing arts community for nearly a century — a 1920s movie palace in a north-central Wisconsin city whose lumber and paper economy underwrote the cultural ambition its name announces.
Opened in 1931 on Winchester Avenue in Ashland, Kentucky, the Paramount Arts Centre has served the Tri-State area — where Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia meet at the Ohio River — as the region’s principal performing arts venue for nearly a century.
Opened in 1942 on California Avenue SW at the Admiral Junction commercial heart of West Seattle, the Admiral Theatre has operated continuously as a neighborhood cinema for over eighty years — a Streamline Moderne building that anchors the West Seattle peninsula’s historic commercial district.
Built circa 1947 to serve McAllen’s predominantly Spanish-speaking community, the El Rey Theatre — Cine El Rey — brought Art Deco cinema to the Rio Grande Valley border region and now operates as a community performing arts center on the National Register of Historic Places.
Built in 1936 for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company and designed by B. Marcus Priteca, the Washoe Theatre on Main Street is one of the most intact Art Deco movie palaces in the American West — operating as a cinema in a copper-mining company town of fewer than ten thousand.
Opened in 1932 on Grandin Road SW in Roanoke’s Grandin Village neighborhood, the Grandin Theatre is one of Virginia’s oldest continuously operating independent cinemas — a neighborhood Art Deco house that has survived decades of pressure through community attachment and organized fundraising.
