Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 00001434 Phone +1 804-446-3457 | Built 1928 (1928) Opened 1928 Added to NRHP 22 November 2000 | |
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Architect Edwards, Osbert L.; Bishop, Fred Address 401 N Main St, Hopewell, VA 23860, USA Similar City Point National Cemetery, Weston Manor, Appomattox Manor, Grant's Headquarters at City Po, Altria Theater Profiles | ||
Beacon Theatre, also known as the Broadway Theatre and Pythian Lodge, is a historic theatre building located at Hopewell, Virginia. It was built in 1928, and is a three-story, vaudeville and movie theater with storefront commercial space, second-floor apartments and third-floor meeting space. It has Colonial Revival and Art Deco style details. The building features decorative bands of flush brickwork punctuated with rectangular cast-stone corner blocks and cast-stone detailing in the parapet coping; the theater is adorned with classical plaster friezes, an elaborate proscenium, and a cove ceiling in the auditorium. The Beacon Theatre remained a theater offering live performances and movies until it closed in 1981. It later reopened.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.