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The Majestic Theatre is San Antonio's oldest and largest atmospheric theatre. The theatre seats 2,264 people and was designed by architect John Eberson , for Karl Hoblitzelle 's Interstate Theatres in 1929.
The Majestic Theatre in 2009. Designed by John Eberson under direction of Karl Hoblitzelle, the Majestic Theatre was constructed in 1920 as the flagship theater for Interstate Amusement Company, a chain of vaudeville houses. [4] The $2 million Renaissance Revival structure opened on April 11, 1921 with a seating capacity of 2,800. [5]
Opened in 1915 as the Majestic Theater vaudeville house, Harry Houdini and Katharine Hepburn both have graced this theater's stage. It was converted to a movie palace in the 1920s and was renamed ...
Majestic Theatre (Columbus Circle), New York City, a 1903 building, demolished in 1954; Majestic Theatre (Dallas), Texas, a 1920 performing arts theatre in the City Center District; Majestic Theatre (Detroit), a 1915 theatre in Michigan; Majestic Theatre (East St. Louis), St. Clair County, Illinois; Majestic Theatre, Grand Rapids, Wisconsin ...
The Majestic Theatre is a historic movie theater located at 240–246 Collinsville Ave. in East St. Louis, Illinois. Built in 1928, the theater replaced a 1907 theater which had burned down. The Spanish Gothic theater was designed by the Boller Brothers, who were nationally prominent theater architects. Multicolored tiles decorate the building ...
The Majestic was converted to accommodate vaudeville shows in the 1920s and eventually into a movie house in 1956 by Sack Cinemas. [3] The change to film came with renovations that transformed the lobby and covered up much of John Galen Howard's original Beaux-Arts architecture. The theater continued to show movies until 1983 as the Saxon ...
The following year, the Majestic Theatre closed, and was eventually demolished in 1957 to make way for the Union Bank Tower. [24] Three months after the demolition of the Majestic, the People's Theater, a movie house built in 1911 [25] (subsequently named the Alder Theatre and the Music Box in the 1930s), was razed as well. [26]