Fox Theater (Atlanta)
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
| National Historic Landmark | |||
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| location | Atlanta , Fulton County , Georgia | ||
| Coordinates | 33 ° 46 '20.7 " N , 84 ° 23' 7.6" W | ||
| Built | 1929 | ||
| architect | Olivier Vinour | ||
| Architectural style | Orientalizing architecture | ||
| NRHP number | 74002230 | ||
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| The NRHP added | 17th May 1974 | ||
| Declared as an NHL | May 11, 1976 | ||
The Fox Theater in Atlanta in the US state of Georgia is one of the few large film palaces still in existence from the 1920s. It is a listed building and is used for various cultural purposes such as ballet , guest performances by Broadway troupes, etc.
The theater, located on the corner of Peachtree Street and Ponce de Leon Avenue in Midtown Atlanta, was a creation of the architect Olivier Vinour of the company Marye, Alger and Vinour. The orientalizing building was initially intended to serve as a meeting place for the Shriners , so it bears traces of Masonic architecture, for example with regard to the “Egyptian ballroom”.
The large auditorium with its 4678 seats is a replica of an open Arab courtyard, including a starry sky and projectable clouds. The trompe l'oeil principle is also used in many other ways. The Egyptian ballroom is modeled on an Amon temple in Karnak , the ladies lounge in the mezzanine shows a replica of Tutankhamun's throne . The movie theater was one of the largest in the United States when it was first made and known as The Fabulous Fox .
history
The planned Yaarab Temple of the Shriners cost US $ 2.75 million and could only be completed thanks to the financial commitment of film producer William Fox . The opening took place on December 25, 1929, two months after the New York stock market crash . After 125 weeks, the theater had to declare its bankruptcy. Despite economic difficulties in the 1930s, the Fox was preserved and celebrated a kind of renaissance as a dance palace in the 1940s.
Television and the flight of white residents from the city centers to the suburbs put the Fox at acute risk. In 1974 it was to be demolished and given way to a telephone company office building. However, this drew considerable protests, and on May 17, 1974, it was listed as a monument in the National Register of Historic Places . Two years later, on May 11, 1976, it was declared a National Historic Landmark . Atlanta Landmarks, a non-profit organization, has been running the theater since 1975, and has around 750,000 visitors a year.
On April 14, 2016, the American singer Prince gave his last live concert of his career at the Fox Theater before he died on April 21, 2016.
See also
literature
- Carolyn Pitts: Fox Theater . National Register of Historic Places, Inventory - Nomination Form. Historic Sites Survey, National Park Service, Washington 1976 ( Online ; PDF)
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Carolyn Pitts: Fox Theater . NRHP nomination. National Park Service , Washington 1976 ( Online ; PDF accessed October 15, 2017).
- ^ Fox Theater , Datasheet on the National Register Information System, National Park Service; accessed October 15, 2017.
- ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Georgia. National Park Service , accessed July 20, 2019.
- ↑ Prince: Piano & A Microphone - April 14, 2016 (show 2). In: Princevault.com. May 19, 2016, accessed on July 5, 2016 (eng).