The Alhambra Theatre, also known as the Palace Theatre, is a building in
El Paso, Texas
El Paso (; "the pass") is a city in and the county seat, seat of El Paso County, Texas, El Paso County in the western corner of the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 population of the city from the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau w ...
. Opened on August 1, 1914, the building was designed by architect Henry C. Trost in the
Spanish Colonial Revival
The Spanish Colonial Revival Style ( es, Arquitectura neocolonial española) is an architectural stylistic movement arising in the early 20th century based on the Spanish Colonial architecture of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
In the ...
style with a Moorish theme, preceding spread of the
Moorish Revival
Moorish Revival or Neo-Moorish is one of the exotic revival architectural styles that were adopted by architects of Europe and the Americas in the wake of Romanticist Orientalism. It reached the height of its popularity after the mid-19th centu ...
style of the 1920s. The building cost $150,000. It was prepared to serve either as a playhouse for live theater or as a movie house, and included a large organ to be played with
silent movies of the day.
[ With three photos from 1979 and 1980.]
See also
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National Register of Historic Places listings in El Paso County, Texas
References
External links
Buildings and structures in El Paso, Texas
National Register of Historic Places in El Paso County, Texas
Theatres completed in 1914
Theatres on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas
Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in Texas
Spanish Colonial Revival cinemas and movie theaters
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