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Lerner Theatre

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
80000036

Phone
  
+1 574-293-4469

Added to NRHP
  
2 October 1980

Built
  
1924 (1924)

Opened
  
1924

Architectural style
  
Beaux-Arts architecture

Lerner Theatre

Location
  
401 S. Main St., Elkhart, Indiana

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


References

Lerner Theatre Wikipedia