Carver Theatre (1935), Birmingham, Alabama
Named for the scientist who transformed Southern agriculture with ingenuity and patience, the Carver Theatre opened in 1935 as the cultural anchor of…
Named for the scientist who transformed Southern agriculture with ingenuity and patience, the Carver Theatre opened in 1935 as the cultural anchor of…
Spokane’s grandest movie palace opened on West Sprague Avenue in 1931, bringing the full spectacle of Hollywood’s golden age to the Pacific Northwest — and…
One of the most ornate surviving movie palaces in the American South — a Spanish Baroque interior of painted ceilings, a two-ton chandelier and approximately…
Omaha’s premier performing arts venue since 1927 — a Spanish Baroque theatrical interior on South 16th Street that has outlasted the vaudeville era, the…
Ann Arbor’s landmark movie palace of 1928 — an Italian Renaissance interior of gilded plasterwork and painted coffered ceilings that has served the…
Albert Kahn’s supreme gesture in gold and polished stone — a 30-storey Art Deco tower whose barrel-vaulted lobby arcade has no equal in the American Midwest.
The only American skyscraper built in the form of a Washington Monument obelisk — opened in September 1929 to a John Philip Sousa march, and closed its first…
The definitive example of Pueblo Deco — Albuquerque’s 1927 cinema where Art Deco geometry meets Navajo ornament, steer-skull light fixtures and Route 66…
One of the five Loew’s “Wonder Theatres” built around the New York metropolitan area in 1929–1930, the Loew’s Jersey at Journal Square brought the Spanish…
Memphis’s grandest surviving movie palace opened in 1928 on South Main Street, replacing an earlier Orpheum destroyed by fire, and has functioned—through…