Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 80000036 Phone +1 574-293-4469 Added to NRHP 2 October 1980 | Built 1924 (1924) Opened 1924 | |
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Address 410 S Main St, Elkhart, IN 46516, USA Hours Closed now Wednesday9AM–5PMThursday9AM–5PMFriday9AM–5PMSaturday9AM–1PMSundayClosedMonday9AM–5PMTuesday9AM–5PM Similar The Lerner, Albert R Beardsley House, Porter County Jail and Sheri, Josephus Wolf House, Tippecanoe Place | ||
Lerner Theatre, also known as the Elco Theatre, is a historic theatre located at Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana. It was built in 1924, and is a two-story, reinforced concrete and steel, Beaux-Arts style building. The front facade features four Corinthian order columns, three freestanding urns, enriched cornice, parapet and frieze. The building is faced with terra cotta and has a lighted canopy projecting over the sidewalk. The auditorium features a large central dome measuring 30 to 40 feet in diameter. Built as a vaudeville theatre, by the late 1920s it had evolved into a motion picture palace.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is located in the Elkhart Downtown Commercial Historic District.
Restored pipe organ at the lerner theatre in elkhart
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