Altria Theater (Richmond, Virginia)
Coordinates: 37 ° 32 ′ 46.5 ″ N , 77 ° 27 ′ 7.9 ″ W.
The Altria Theater in Richmond , Virginia , to 1994. The Mosque (the mosque ), and 2013 Landmark Theater is a facility building in the southwest corner of Monroe Park. It was built in an orientalizing style in 1926 as a temple and leisure building for the Shriners (a kind of Freemason ) and with a gala performance by the opera singer Ernestine Schumann-Heinkopened. Based on the original plans of the builder Clinton. L. Williams, the building was to contain a theater with 4600 seats, 42 hotel rooms, a fitness center with a pool, bowling alleys and a restaurant.
In 1940 the building was acquired by the City of Richmond. It has a ballroom for around 1,000 people and a theater with 3,565 seats (as of 2015). It was named Landmark after a renovation in 1995, as the building never had religious purposes and people had become more sensitive to orientalizing names. It was named Altria after the sponsor Altria Group after a renovation in 2014.
The building is used for theater and concert events. It was the location of numerous historical concerts such as those by Frank Sinatra in 1941, Elvis Presley in 1956 or Jimi Hendrix in 1968.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Landmark Theater, accessed July 27, 2013
- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 5, 2015
- ^ Daily Press, April 14, 1997, accessed July 27, 2013
- ^ Richmond Times-Dispatch, Feb. 22, 2014, accessed Sept. 5, 2015
