Palais Royale Building is a historic commercial building located in

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, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It was built in 1922 along with the neighboring Palace Theater by the Palace Theater Corporation. It is a three-story, rectangular, Spanish Renaissance Revival-style brick building with finely crafted

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ornamentation. It features a series of monumental semi-elliptical arched windows. The interior originally housed a two-story

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. A bombing on January 10, 1935, blew out most of the storefront windows and destroyed the corner suite. ''Note:'' This includes and Accompanying photographs It was listed on the

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in 1983.

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Palais Royale Ballroom
Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Renaissance Revival architecture in Indiana Commercial buildings completed in 1922 Buildings and structures in South Bend, Indiana National Register of Historic Places in St. Joseph County, Indiana {{StJosephCountyIN-NRHP-stub