Beacon Theatre (Hopewell, Virginia)

Beacon Theatre
Beacon Theatre, May, 2007
Location 401 N. Main St., Hopewell, Virginia
Coordinates 37°18′16″N 77°17′15″W / 37.30444°N 77.28750°W / 37.30444; -77.28750Coordinates: 37°18′16″N 77°17′15″W / 37.30444°N 77.28750°W / 37.30444; -77.28750
Area less than one acre
Built 1928 (1928)
Architect Edwards, Osbert L.; Bishop, Fred
Architectural style Colonial Revival, Art Deco
NRHP reference # 00001434[1]
VLR # 116-0010
Significant dates
Added to NRHP November 22, 2000
Designated VLR June 14, 2000[2]

Beacon Theatre, also known as the Broadway Theatre and Pythian Lodge, is a historic theatre building located at Hopewell, Virginia. It was built in 1928, and is a three-story, vaudeville and movie theater with storefront commercial space, second-floor apartments and third-floor meeting space. It has Colonial Revival and Art Deco style details. The building features decorative bands of flush brickwork punctuated with rectangular cast-stone corner blocks and cast-stone detailing in the parapet coping; the theater is adorned with classical plaster friezes, an elaborate proscenium, and a cove ceiling in the auditorium. The Beacon Theatre remained a theater offering live performances and movies until it closed in 1981.[3] It later reopened.[4]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
  3. ↑ B.J. Loudermilk (April 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Beacon Theatre" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo
  4. ↑ Hopewell Beacon Theater


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