Carolina Theatre (Lumberton, North Carolina)

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Carolina Theatre
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Carolina Civic Center, December 2014
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Location319 N. Chestnut St., Lumberton, North Carolina
Coordinates 34°37′9″N79°0′30″W / 34.61917°N 79.00833°W / 34.61917; -79.00833
Arealess than one acre
Built1927 (1927)-1928
Built byUnderwood, U.A., Construction Co.
ArchitectDixon, S.S.
Architectural styleItalian Renaissance
NRHP reference No. 81000426 [1]
Added to NRHPJuly 9, 1981

Carolina Theatre, also known as the Carolina Civic Center, is a historic movie theater located at Lumberton, Robeson County, North Carolina. It was built in 1927–1928, and is a three-story, Italian Renaissance style brick and terra cotta building. The theatre closed in 1975 [2] amid a general exodus of businesses from downtown Lumberton. Plans were made to demolish it and build a parking lot, but community activists lobbied to have the building spared. It was reopened as the Carolina Civic Center in 1985 and underwent renovations in 2008. [3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. [1] It is located in the Lumberton Commercial Historic District at 319 North Chestnut Street.

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Davyd Foard Hood and Edward F. Turberg (December 1980). "Carolina Theatre" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
  3. Nagem, Sarah (November 29, 2022). "Downtown Lumberton envisions a big transformation, starting with Carolina Civic Center". Border Belt Independent. Retrieved December 2, 2022.

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