Built 1904 VLR # 118-0001 Opened 1904 Added to NRHP 11 June 1969 | NRHP Reference # 69000340 Designated VLR November 5, 1968 Architectural style Beaux-Arts architecture | |
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Similar Thomas Road Baptist C, Court Street Baptist C, Anne Spencer House, Lynchburg Courthouse, Point of Honor | ||
The Academy of Music is a historic theatre building located in Lynchburg, Virginia. The three story theater was built 1904–05 in the Beaux Arts style with a Neoclassical interior. It was designed by Frye & Chesterman. It is one of the only surviving legitimate theaters of the turn-of-the-century period in Virginia. Some of the more notable European and American names to appear on its stage included Ignace Paderewski, Anna Pavlova, Sarah Bernhardt, Alma Gluck, DeWolf Hopper, Otis Skinner, John Drew and Mrs. Patrick Campbell. In 2008, the Lynchburg Academy of Fine Arts received a $245,000 earmark from Representative Bob Goodlatte from the Community Development Fund of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, for renovations to the building.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.