Ace Theatre

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Ace Theatre
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Ace Theatre in 2018
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Location3664 Grand Avenue, Miami, Florida
Coordinates 25°43′39″N80°15′08″W / 25.72750°N 80.25222°W / 25.72750; -80.25222 (Ace Theatre)
Arealess than one acre
Built1930 (1930)
Architectural styleArt Deco
NRHP reference No. 16000359
Added to NRHPJune 13, 2016

Ace Theatre in Miami, Florida, is an Art Deco commercial structure constructed in 1930 in Miami's Coconut Grove neighborhood. On July 1, 2014, the site was designated as a local historic resource. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places June 13, 2016. [1]

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The Wolfson-Meyer Theater Company, later Wometco Enterprises, owned the theater since its construction in 1930 until 1979, when the building was purchased by Harvey Wallace. The Wallace family founded Ace Development Co., the theater's current owner. [2]

In the 1950s, Ace Theatre was the only film venue to serve the black community in Coconut Grove. [3]

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References

  1. "National Register of Historic Places Program: Weekly List". National Park Service. June 24, 2016. Retrieved November 21, 2018.
  2. Madan, Monique O. (24 July 2016). "Coconut Grove - Once-segregated theater now a national historic place - Coconut Grove's Ace Theatre made it on the National Register of Historic Places". The Miami Herald.
  3. Salo, Jackie (2 July 2014). "Former West Grove theater named historic site". The Miami Herald.