Fox Theater (Detroit)
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| Address | 2211 Woodward Avenue Detroit, Michigan United States |
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| Owner | Olympia Entertainment |
| Type | movie palace |
| Capacity | 5,174 |
| Current use | live event venue |
| Construction | |
| Opened | 1928 |
| Reopened | November 19, 1988 |
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| Coordinates | 42°20′18.96″N 83°3′8.05″W / 42.3386000°N 83.0522361°WCoordinates: 42°20′18.96″N 83°3′8.05″W / 42.3386000°N 83.0522361°W |
| Architect |
C. Howard Crane Restoration by William Kessler |
| Architectural style | Art Deco with a blend of Burmese, Indian, Persian, Chinese, and Hindu motifs |
| NRHP Reference # | 85000280 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | February 14, 1985 |
| Designated NHL | June 29, 1989 |
| Designated MSHS | October 17, 1991 |
The Fox Theatre is a performing arts center located at 2211 Woodward Avenue in Downtown Detroit, Michigan, near the Grand Circus Park Historic District. Opened in 1928 as a flagship movie palace in the Fox Theatres chain, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989. The area surrounding the Fox is nicknamed Foxtown. The city's major performance centers and theatres emanate from the Fox Theatre and Grand Circus Park Historic District and continue along Woodward Avenue toward the Fisher Theatre in the city's New Center.
The Fox has 5,048 seats (5,174 seats if removable seats placed in the raised orchestra pit are included). It is the largest surviving movie palace of the 1920s and the largest of the original Fox Theatres. The Fox was fully restored in 1988. The adjacent office building houses the headquarters of Olympia Entertainment and Little Caesars.
The Detroit Fox is one of five spectacular Fox Theatres built in the late 1920s by film pioneer William Fox. The others were the Fox Theatres in Brooklyn, Atlanta, St. Louis, and San Francisco. Architect C. Howard Crane designed the Fox with a lavish interior featuring a blend of Burmese, Chinese, Indian and Persian motifs. There are three levels of seating, the Main Floor above the orchestra pit, the Mezzanine, and the Gallery (balcony). The exterior of the attached 10-story office building features a façade with Asian motifs which, when illuminated at night, can be seen for several blocks. The Fox Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri is (on the interior) its near architectural twin with about 500 fewer seats. The 10-story Detroit Fox Theatre building also contains the headquarters of Olympia Entertainment, while the St. Louis Fox is a stand-alone theatre. The architectural plaster molds of the Detroit Fox (1928) were re-used on the St. Louis Fox (1929).
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