Built 1917 Opened 1917 Added to NRHP 18 March 1985 | NRHP Reference # 85000617 Architectural style Beaux-Arts architecture Architect G. Albert Lansburgh | |
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Location 416 N. 9th St., St. Louis, Missouri Address 416 N 9th St, St. Louis, MO 63101, USA Similar Pine Belt Arena, Orpheum Theater, Mississippi Nights, Eugene Field House, Beale on Broadway | ||
The Orpheum Theater in St. Louis, Missouri is a Beaux-Arts style theater, built in 1917. It was constructed by local self-made millionaire Louis A. Cella and designed by architect Albert Lansburgh. The $500,000 theater opened on Labor Day, 1917, as a vaudeville house. As vaudeville declined, it was sold to Warner Brothers in 1930, and served as a movie theater until it closed in the 1960s.
It was restored as the American Theater in the 1980s and was listed under that name on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It was later sold to local businessmen Michael and Steve Roberts, who renamed it the Roberts Orpheum Theater. The Roberts brothers sold the theater in 2012, and it closed. The Chicago developer, UrbanStreet Group, plans to restore the theater.