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.
Opened in 1928 as the Warner Bros. flagship for California’s Central Valley, the Warnors Theatre on Fresno’s Fulton Mall is a Mediterranean Revival picture palace that has served the San Joaquin Valley for nearly a century, now operating as a performing arts center for Broadway tours and concerts.
Completed in 1938 for a Greek immigrant family, the Latchis Theatre anchors one of New England’s most intact Art Deco complexes — hotel, cinema, and retail unified behind a facade of terracotta sea creatures on Brattleboro’s Main Street.
Built in 1930 as the Stuart Theatre and later renamed the Rococo, this Art Deco cinema on North 13th Street anchors downtown Lincoln near the University of Nebraska campus, now operating as a live music venue.
Opened in 1932 on Bar Harbor’s Cottage Street, the Criterion Theatre has operated continuously as a cinema for over nine decades. Its Art Deco facade is a fixed point in the Acadia gateway town — the oldest intact Art Deco commercial building in downtown Bar Harbor.
The Varsity Theatre has anchored Highland Road beside the LSU campus since 1934. Its Art Deco marquee, with stepped metalwork and neon lettering, has lit this Baton Rouge corridor for nine decades — first as a neighborhood cinema, now as a live music venue.
Opened in 1927 in downtown Bellingham, the Mount Baker Theatre is the Pacific Northwest’s most elaborately ornamented surviving theater. Its Moorish Revival and Spanish Colonial interior, with star-patterned ceilings and polychrome plasterwork, continues to host performances on Commercial Street.
Built in 1929 in Jacksonville’s LaVilla district, the Ritz Theatre was one of Florida’s premier African American performance venues. Restored as a performing arts center and museum, its Art Deco facade defines North Davis Street.
A Streamline Moderne landmark on Denton’s courthouse square, the Campus Theatre has anchored the cultural life of this North Texas university city since 1936.
The Georgia Theatre on North Lumpkin Street has defined Athens’s cultural identity for nearly a century — an Art Moderne commercial facade that has framed…
On the eastern slope of the Oregon Cascades, the 1940 Tower Theatre brings Streamline Moderne cinema architecture to a high-desert town that has transformed…
