Dalton Theatre Building

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Dalton Theatre Building
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Dalton Theatre Building, October 2013
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LocationWashington Ave., Pulaski, Virginia
Coordinates 37°2′48″N80°46′47″W / 37.04667°N 80.77972°W / 37.04667; -80.77972
Arealess than one acre
Built1921 (1921)
ArchitectLombard, James C & Co.
Architectural styleLate 19th And Early 20th Century American Movements, Beaux Arts
NRHP reference No. 79003074 [1]
VLR No.125-0002
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMay 7, 1979
Designated VLRNovember 16, 1977 [2]

Dalton Theatre Building is a historic theatre building located at Pulaski, Pulaski County, Virginia. It was built in 1921, and is a three-story, five-bay, brick Commercial Style building with a flat roof topped by a one-story square central tower. [3] The theater was initially built for vaudeville, and had the largest stage of any theaters on the rail line from Richmond, Virginia to Tennessee. [3] Following the development of talking films it was converted into a movie theater and showed films into the 1960s. [3]

Facing the road on the ground floor are two storefronts that originally housed a bank and a drugstore. [3] The upper two floors were used for offices as well as apartments for visiting performers. [3] At the rear of the building was a gable-roofed auditorium, designed in the Beaux Arts style, and a plain five-story equipment tower serving the stage. The auditorium section of the building collapsed in 1982, however, and has been razed. [4]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. [1]

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  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (November 1977). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Dalton Theatre Building". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo
  4. Gibson Worsham and Charlotte Worsham (August 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Pulaski Historic Commercial District" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources.