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- Allen Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio - Photographs of the movie theater built in 1921, from RineStock Studios.
www.rinestock.com/allen.html
- American Picture Palaces - Illustrated history by the University of Virginia of the extravagant buildings that sprang up in the inter-war years to house the movies. Includes socio-economic background, guide to Art Deco.
xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/PALACE/home.html
- Aztec On The River Theatre - The official site of this theater in San Antonio (US), opened in 1926 in a fantasy Meso-American style. Includes photographs and history.
www.aztecontheriver.com/home.htm
- Carthalia - Andreas Praefcke's postcard collection of theatre buildings and concert halls worldwide. He provides notes on the history of some of the better-known ones.
www.andreas-praefcke.de/carthalia
- Cinema Treasures - Dedicated to saving classic movie theaters in the US. News, database, photographs, virtual tours and message boards. Also aims, founders, sponsors and volunteer staff of the web-site.
cinematreasures.org
- Drive In Theater - The American phenomenon which began in the 1930s: open-air cinemas, viewed from automobiles. An illustrated history and list of theaters both operating and closed.
www.driveintheater.com
- Fox Theatre Building, Detroit, Michigan - Designed by C. Howard Crane and built in 1928, it is the "most exotic eclectic Hindu-Siamese-Byzantine theater of the golden age of the movie palace". Photographs, brief history.
www.sos.state.mi.us/history/preserve/phissite/foxtheat.html
- Historic Movie Houses of Los Angeles - A list with dates and brief descriptions of the theaters built (1910-32) along South Broadway for films and vaudeville.
www.ci.la.ca.us/tourist/movpalac.htm
- Historic Wayne Theatre - History and restoration of the vaudeville house built in 1926-1927 in the small town of Wayne, Michigan by local construction engineer Charles K. Miller.
www.historicwaynetheatre.com
- Julia Morgan Theater, Berkeley, California - Redwood building designed by architect Julia Morgan in 1908 as the St. John's Presbyterian Church. Brief description, photographs, plan.
www.juliamorgan.org
- Movie House History: Classic Theaters of Kansas - Paul Salley lists theaters, opera houses and drive-in theaters in Kansas, with some history. Banners.
moviehousehistory.tripod.com
- Netherlands Cinema History - Karel Dibbets explores the theaters, the people, the companies, and the visitors of Dutch cinemas from 1906 to the present. Large list of cinemas with opening dates, some with architect.
www.xs4all.nl/~kd
- Palace Theatre - Historic photos and stories of 1925 theatre in Hilo, Hawaii.
www.palacehilo.org
- Paramount Theatre, Oakland, California - The official site offers photographs and a history (with source) of this extraordinary Art Deco theater. The 1930s movie palace was designed by San Francisco architect Timothy Pflueger.
www.paramounttheatre.com
- Recreating The Theater of Dionysus in Athens - A computer reconstruction of this ancient amphitheater from the e-journal Didaskalia: Ancient Theater Today.
www.didaskalia.net/StudyArea/recreatingdionysus.html
- Saenger Theatres - A study of the former Saenger organization and its theaters, mainly in the US. A list, with illustrated histories of selected theaters, some now gone.
www.saengeramusements.com
- Shakespeare's Globe Research Database - Describes and illustrates London playhouses in the 16th and 17th century, particularly the original Globe Theatre, and its modern reconstruction. From Reading University.
www.rdg.ac.uk/globe
- Shakespeare's Globe Theatre - Peter McCurdy describes the reconstruction by his firm of the Elizabethan theater in London used by Shakespeare. Research, construction.
www.mccurdyco.com/page3.html
- Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, London - The official site includes images and archaeological evidence of the original Elizabethan circular theater, the story of its reconstruction (1994-7) and a timeline.
shakespeares-globe.org
- Swedish Cinemas - This stylish site by Kjell Furberg, cinema historian and photographer, provides an architectural feast from the silent era onwards. English and Swedish language versions.
www.algonet.se/~furberg
- The Ancient Theater of Ephesus - Ïbrahim Ataç explains in the CSA Newsletter that a computer model of theater at Ephesus is to be made. Illustrations are included.
www.csanet.org/newsletter/may96/nl059603.html
- The Fox Theatre, Salina, Kansas - This movie palace built circa 1931 will be restored as a performing arts facility. Photographs of the building from the 1930s to 1950s. Campaign news.
www.thefoxtheatre.org
- The KiMo Theatre, Albuquerque, New Mexico - A picture palace in the flamboyant, short-lived, Pueblo Deco style, designed by Carl Boller in 1925. Photographs and history from the City of Albuquerque.
www.cabq.gov/kimo/index.html
- The Picture Palace - Studies of UK cinema buildings and their architects.
easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~lfbarfe
- The Uptown Theatre - History of the landmark building in Chicago which opened in 1921, designed by architects Rapp and Rapp for the Balaban and Katz Corporation
www.uptowntheatre.com
- Theaters - Great Buildings Online provides photographs, details and bibliographies for a number of significant theaters of all periods across the world.
www.greatbuildings.com/types/types/theater.html
- Theatre Historical Society of America - Nonprofit educational organization dedicated to documenting and celebrating historic theatres of all types in the United States.
www2.hawaii.edu/~angell/thsa
- Theatre Royal Chatham, UK - The Theatre Royal Chatham Trust present a slide-show and illustrated history of this ornate Late-Victorian theater, and its efforts to save and restore it.
www.theatreroyal.co.uk
- Theatre Royal, York, UK - The official site includes a brief history of the theater built in 1744 and re-modelled in the 19th century.
www.theatre-royal-york.co.uk
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