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The district encompasses 57 contributing buildings and 5 contributing sites. It includes the central business district and limited residential development directly connected to the historic court circle (the Gloucester County Courthouse Square Historic District) and Main Street extending east to Edge Hill, to include the Gloucester Women's Club ...
Pitts Theatre, also known as the State Theatre after 1970, is a historic movie theater located at Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia. It was built in 1937–1938, and is a concrete block structure faced in brick in the Art Deco style. The building consists of a symmetrical three-bay façade, with a central theater entrance flanked by ...
Seven blocks of Main St. from the courthouse circle to Ware House Rd. Gloucester: 9: Gloucester Point Archaeological District: Gloucester Point Archaeological District: June 10, 1985 : Off U.S. Route 13 on Gloucester Point [8
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Commodore Theatre is an historic movie theater located at Portsmouth, Virginia. It was built in 1945 in the Streamline Art Deco style, and originally sat 1,000 people. [ 3 ] The theater closed in 1975 and sat empty until a change in ownership and extensive renovation beginning in 1987. [ 3 ]
The district encompasses 17 contributing buildings including the Gloucester County government buildings and those structures bordering the square, housing private businesses, offices and residences. The courthouse was built about 1766, and is a one-story, T-shaped brick structure with a hipped roof.
The Loew's Theatre Corporation's design was created by renowned New York architect John Eberson and was influenced by both Spanish and Moorish baroque architecture. Architectural historian Calder Loth states: "Loew's was considered the most up-to-date theater in the South when it opened on April 9, 1928". [ 3 ]
The Theatre Royal at Gloucester, at which Charles Dickens once performed, was an important theatre in the history of the city. The theatre was built in 1791 by John Boles Watson in upper Westgate Street. [1] Watson died in 1813, and the theatre was sold to the businessman John Blinkhorn in 1857. [2]