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Beacon Theatre
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district Contributing property
Virginia Landmarks Register
Beacon Theatre, May, 2007
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Location	401 N. Main St., Hopewell, Virginia
Coordinates	37°18′16″N 77°17′15″W / 37.30444°N 77.28750°W / 37.30444; -77.28750
Area	less than one acre
Built	1928 (1928)
Architect	Edwards, Osbert L.; Bishop, Fred
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Art Deco
NRHP reference No.	00001434
VLR No.	116-0010
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	November 22, 2000
Designated VLR	June 14, 2000

Beacon Theatre, also known as the Broadway Theatre and Pythian Lodge, is a historic theatre building located at Hopewell, Virginia.

History

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. It later reopened.

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

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. 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 Theatre

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