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Fox Theatre (St. Louis)

Fox Theatre (St. Louis)
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The Fox Theatre, St Louis
Location 527 N. Grand Blvd.
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Owner Fox Associates
Type Concert venue
Capacity 4500
Construction
Opened 1929
Renovated 1982
Website

www.fabulousfox.com

Fox Theater
Fox Theatre (St. Louis) is located in St. Louis
Fox Theatre (St. Louis)
Fox Theatre (St. Louis) is located in Missouri
Fox Theatre (St. Louis)
Fox Theatre (St. Louis) is located in the US
Fox Theatre (St. Louis)
Location 527 N. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, Missouri
Coordinates 38°38′19″N 90°13′54″W / 38.63861°N 90.23167°W / 38.63861; -90.23167Coordinates: 38°38′19″N 90°13′54″W / 38.63861°N 90.23167°W / 38.63861; -90.23167
Built 1929
Architectural style Other, Siamese Byzantine style
NRHP Reference # 76002261
Added to NRHP October 8, 1976

www.fabulousfox.com

The Fox Theatre, a former movie palace, is a performing arts center located at 527 N. Grand Blvd. in St. Louis, Missouri. Also known as "The Fabulous Fox", it is situated in the arts district of the Grand Center area in Midtown St. Louis, one block north of Saint Louis University. It opened in 1929 and was completely restored in 1982.

The Fox was built in 1929 by movie pioneer William Fox as a showcase for the films of the Fox Film Corporation and elaborate stage shows. It was one of a group of five spectacular Fox Theatres built by Fox in the late 1920s. (The others were the Fox Theatres in Brooklyn, Atlanta, Detroit, and San Francisco.)

When the theater opened on January 31, 1929, it was reportedly the second-largest theater in the United States, with 5,060 seats. It was one of St. Louis's leading movie theaters through the 1960s and has survived to become a versatile performing arts venue.

The Fox was designed by an architect specializing in theaters, C. Howard Crane, in an eclectic blend of Asian decorative motifs sometimes called Siamese Byzantine. The interior is the architectural twin of another Fox Theatre built in Detroit in 1928. Reporters in 1929 described the Fox Theatres in St. Louis and Detroit as "awe-inspiringly fashioned after Hindoo (sic) Mosques of Old India, bewildering in their richness and dazzling in their appointments ... striking a note that reverberates around the architectural and theatrical worlds." William Fox nicknamed the style the "Eve Leo Style" in tribute to his wife, who decorated the interior with furnishings, paintings and sculpture she had bought on her trips overseas.


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