Fox Theater (Spokane, Washington)
The theater after restoration.
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 Fox Theater
Fox Theater in Spokane, Wash.
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| Full name | Martin Woldson Theater at the FOX | ||||||||||||
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| Address | 1001 W. Sprague Ave. Spokane, Washington |
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| Coordinates | 47°39′26″N 117°25′37″W / 47.657092°N 117.426832°W | ||||||||||||
| Owner | Spokane Symphony | ||||||||||||
| Operator | Spokane Symphony | ||||||||||||
| Type | Theatre | ||||||||||||
| Genre(s) | concerts, movies, theatre | ||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1931-09-03 | ||||||||||||
| Renovated | November 2007 | ||||||||||||
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| Architect | Robert C. Reamer | ||||||||||||
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Fox Theater or Martin Woldson Theater At The Fox
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| MPS | Movie Theaters in Washington State MPS |
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| NRHP Reference # | 01001287 |
| Added to NRHP | November 30, 2001 |
The Fox Theater in Spokane, Washington is a 1931 Art Deco movie theater. It was designed by architect Robert C. Reamer, notable for his design of the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone Park. It was part of the Fox Film Corporation Empire founded by studio mogul William Fox. The theater opened September 3, 1931 and showed films continuously until it closed September 21, 2000 after an engagement of the movie Gladiator starring Russell Crowe.
The Fox Theater opened with seating for 2,350 patrons (1,450 on the ground floor and 900 in the balcony) on 3 September 1931. The cost of construction was publicized as US$1,000,000 (equivalent to $15,700,000 in 2016), and the Fox opened with a live production of Fanchon and Marco's About Town, followed by the film Merely Mary Ann one week later.Anita Page, Mitzi Green, George O'Brien, Victor McLaglen and El Brendel attended the opening performance gala. Interior decorations and appointments, designed by Anthony Heinsbergen, were singled out for praise in contemporary newspaper accounts.
In May 1961, The Fox Theater sold its organ to a Los Angeles-area collector, who disassembled it and had it shipped to California. The process of dismantling the organ took approximately one week. The Fox Theater subdivided its main screen and opened as a three-screen complex (with one main screen downstairs and two balcony screens upstairs) on 14 November 1975. In 1989, the theater began showing second-run movies at US$1 (equivalent to $2 in 2016) per ticket. When Regal Cinemas built the new 12-screen megaplex at NorthTown Mall, it sold half of its eight Spokane theaters, including the Fox. The final movie, a screening of Gladiator, was shown on 21 September 2000, and a small ceremony marked the sale of the theater to the Spokane Symphony.
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