New Mission Theater | |
Location | 2550 Mission Street, San Francisco, California, U.S. |
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Coordinates | 37°45′22″N122°25′09″W / 37.75622°N 122.41909°W |
Built | 1916 |
Architect | Reid Brothers |
NRHP reference No. | 01001206 [1] |
Added to NRHP | November 9, 2001 |
Designated | May 27, 2004 [2] |
Reference no. | 245 |
The New Mission Theater is a historic building, built in 1916 and is located at 2550 Mission Street in San Francisco, California.
The building is listed as a San Francisco Designated Landmark since May 27, 2004; and listed as one of the National Register of Historic Places since November 9, 2001. [3] [4]
The building originally designed by the Reid Brothers. It was renovated for the Nasser Brothers Theaters circuit in 1932 by Timothy Pflueger, who transformed it into Art Deco-style. [5] It boasts a 70 foot (21 m) marquee sign that is a local landmark. In its early life, it showed mostly "B" movies.
In the 1960s and 1970s, it specialized in children's fare. The theater closed in 1993 and became a furniture store. [6] It was purchased by the City College of San Francisco, who proposed to raze it and build new campus facilities. But a group called "Save The New Mission Theater", headed by Alfonso Felder, lobbied to stop the college from destroying the theater. [7]
The building was renovated by the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema chain, and re-opened as a movie theater and bar in December 2015. [8]
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