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 (former) Civic Theater - Webb City, Missouri Posted by:  iconions
N 37° 08.845 W 094° 27.883
15S E 369923 N 4112230
This brown brick, one-story building is located at 217 W. Daugherty in Webb City, Missouri.
Waymark Code: WM16TV9
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 10/05/2022
Views: 2
217 W. Daugherty
Civic Theater
ca. 1931
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This is a one-story brick building that exhibits Streamline Moderne, Art Deco, and Spanish Mission influence. The building was constructed in 1931 to house Civil Theater and to replace the Blake Theater that occupied this lot and burned in 1931. The facade holds three inset storefront bays. The center bay features a double entrance dived by a glass block window and a projecting concrete planter. Each entrance has a double wood and glass door with a poster display window on the side wall of the inset. Then inset bay has a tiled floor with art deco designs in various colors. The bay is flanked by an eight-sided display window that is longer at the top and bottom with shorter sides that are chamfered to meet the top and bottom section. The window bay features a surround clad in porcelain enamel panels (light pink/buff color) with narrow green and red porcelain enamel panels used a decorative band in the center. The east and west bays mirror each other and features an inset centered entrance door with a wooden screen door, flanked to the inside by a curved glass block wall to the interior of the facade and a one-over-one display window on the outside edge of the bay. The sign board area over the facade is clad in stucco and painted green with the upper level clad in rough faced brown brick. The roofline has a stone coping and a centered Mission style parapet roof flanked by smaller Mission style parapets over each storefront. Located in the center of each parapet is an oval stone medallion.
- National Register Application
Operating as the Blake Opera House in the 1920’s, it had become the Civic Theater since at least 1941 when it was listed with a seating capacity of 550, in the Film Daily Yearbook. The Civic Theater (not to be confused with the Civic Junior Theater, also on Main Street) was designed by Webb City architect Larry P. Larsen, who designed over 100 theatres around the U.S.A.
The Civic Theater was still listed as operating in 1957.
- Cinema Treasures.org website
Year Theater Opened: 1931
Ticket Price (local currency): 0.00 (listed in local currency)
Matinee Price (local currency): 0.00 (listed in local currency)
Number of Screen(s): 1
Concessions Available: no
Web site: [Web Link]
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