#LITTLE THEATRE KALAMAZOO MOVIE#

The State Theatre was built to accommodate both live performances and motion pictures, employing the hallmarks of both, including a Barton theatre organ and a projection space. The auditorium was constructed in the “atmospheric style,” where elaborate ornamentation and decoration gave the audience the sense that they were being entertained outdoors.

#LITTLE THEATRE KALAMAZOO MOVIE#

It is significant for its masterful design by international movie palace architect John Eberson, a prolific theatre designer in the 1920s and 30s. Butterfield Company, the largest theatre operator in Michigan at that time.

Located on South Burdick Street in downtown Kalamazoo, the Spanish courtyard-style State Theatre was built in 1927 as part of the W.S. “The new designation makes the case for the significance of the theatre’s past, and also its future, as a source of entertainment for theater lovers, history buffs, and tourists for years to come.” “The State Theatre has been a beloved fixture in Kalamazoo for nearly 100 years and is one of the few theaters of its kind in Michigan,” Governor Whitmer said. Administered in Michigan by the State Historic Preservation Office, the National Register of Historic Places is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historic significance. – Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation today announced that the historic State Theatre in downtown Kalamazoo has been given special recognition through its listing in the National Register of Historic Places.

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