Alex Theatre (1925/1940), N Brand Boulevard, Glendale, California
The Alex Theatre on Brand Boulevard in Glendale is one of Southern California’s most distinctive picture palace landmarks, defined by its soaring Egyptian…
The Alex Theatre on Brand Boulevard in Glendale is one of Southern California’s most distinctive picture palace landmarks, defined by its soaring Egyptian…
The Avalon Theatre on Connecticut Avenue NW is Washington’s oldest operational single-screen cinema, a restored 1923 neighborhood picture house that serves…
Built in 1929 as a North Philadelphia neighborhood cinema, the Uptown Theatre became in the 1960s one of the most important rhythm-and-blues performance…
Opened in 1921 as Savannah’s grandest picture palace, the Lucas Theatre closed in 1976 and was rescued from demolition by a two-decade community campaign…
Built in 1914 as Birmingham’s premier vaudeville house, the Lyric Theatre was the flagship of the city’s early twentieth-century Theater District and has…
Opened in 1928 as a picture palace for the Cornell University community, the State Theatre of Ithaca is a surviving Art Deco and Italian Renaissance Revival…
Built at the height of the Flint automobile economy in 1928, the Capitol Theatre brought a French Renaissance picture palace to Saginaw Street that has…
Named for Polk County and opened in 1928 in the waning months of Florida’s real estate boom, the Polk Theatre is the last surviving commercial picture palace…
A Spanish Colonial Revival picture palace opened in 1927 on Washington Street, the Indiana Theatre houses one of the most intact rooftop ballrooms in the…
Built in 1926 as a neighborhood picture palace, the Hollywood Theatre on NE Sandy Boulevard is one of the few single-screen cinemas from the 1920s still…