Dalton Theatre Building

Historic theater in Pulaski County, Virginia, US From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Dalton Theatre Building is a historic theatre building located at Pulaski, Pulaski County, Virginia. It was built in 1921, and is a three-story, five-bay, brick Commercial Style building with a flat roof topped by a one-story square central tower.[3] The theater was initially built for vaudeville, and had the largest stage of any theaters on the rail line from Richmond, Virginia to Tennessee.[3] Following the development of talking films it was converted into a movie theater and showed films into the 1960s.[3]

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LocationWashington Ave., Pulaski, Virginia
Coordinates37°2′48″N 80°46′47″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1921 (1921)
ArchitectLombard, James C & Co.
Architectural styleLate 19th And Early 20th Century American Movements, Beaux Arts
NRHP reference No.79003074[1]
VLR No.125-0002
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMay 7, 1979
Designated VLRNovember 16, 1977[2]
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Facing the road on the ground floor are two storefronts that originally housed a bank and a drugstore.[3] The upper two floors were used for offices as well as apartments for visiting performers.[3] At the rear of the building was a gable-roofed auditorium, designed in the Beaux Arts style, and a plain five-story equipment tower serving the stage. The auditorium section of the building collapsed in 1982, however, and has been razed.[4]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1]

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