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Item Title
Paramount Theatre, Sunrise Avenue & North County Road, Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, FL
LocationSunrise Avenue & North County Road,
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS FL-230
Building/structure dates:
1926 initial construction
Significance: Built as a movie theatre just before the advent of talking films, it is one of the last theatres built especially for silent movies. However, its architect, the Viennese Joseph Maria Urban, a noted theatre architect and stage designer, saw to it that the theatre was acoustically suited to the musical accompaniment of silent films, to which purpose he had installed a large pipe organ, as well as to the sound of live stage performances. These acoustics of the house would serve also the talking picture, of whose impending approach Urban was well aware. Entered on National Register 12/12/73.
Related Names
Urban, Joseph Maria
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. GENERAL VIEW FROM WEST
2. VIEW OF ENTRANCE FACADE FROM WEST
3. GENERAL VIEW FROM SOUTHWEST
4. GENERAL VIEW OF NORTH SIDE FROM NORTHWEST
5. VIEW TO SOUTHEAST
6. VIEW OF MAIN ENTRANCE FACADE FROM NORTH
7. DETAIL OF DOME ON SECOND FLOOR ROOF, VIEW FROM NORTH
8. VIEW OF SECOND-FLOOR DECK AND FOOTBRIDGE
9. VIEW OF COURTYARD FROM NORTH
10. DETAIL OF FOOTBRIDGE AND SECOND-FLOOR DECK
11. GENERAL VIEW FROM NORTHWEST REAR OF AUDITORIUM TO STAGE
12. VIEW ACROSS BALCONY FROM SOUTH SIDE
13. VIEW OF REAR ORCHESTRA SEATING, BALCONY SOFFIT AND ARCADE
14. VIEW THROUGH REAR BALCONY CROSS AISLE SHOWING BALCONY ARCHES, COLUMNS, AND LANTERNS
15. DETAIL OF BALCONY, COLUMNS, ARCHES, AND LANTERNS
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