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Stadium Building

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Built
  
1926

NRHP Reference #
  
76000006

Opened
  
1926

Phone
  
+1 401-762-4545

Architect
  
Perry & Whipple

Capacity
  
1,101

Area
  
4,452 m²

Added to NRHP
  
30 June 1976

Stadium Building

Location
  
Woonsocket, Rhode Island

Address
  
28 Monument Square, Woonsocket, RI 02895, USA

Similar
  
Museum of Work and Culture, Providence Performing Arts Center, Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Washington County Courthouse, Trinity Repertory Company

Profiles

The Stadium Theatre, part of the "Stadium Building and Theatre," is an historic theater and commercial building at 329 Main Street in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The complex consists of two connected sections, one housing the theater, the other offices, both with retail spaces on the ground floor. The theater was designed by Perry and Whipple of Providence and built in 1926. Initial funding came from Mrs. Norbert Champeau, a widow with interest in the theater, but the project was soon taken over by Arthur I. Darman, a local industrialist. Although it lacked the opulence of theaters in larger cities, it was one of the most elaborately decorated performance spaces in Woonsocket.

The venue was closed from the 1970s to 1991, but reopened in 2001. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

References

Stadium Building Wikipedia