Dalton Theatre Building
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. The theater was initially built for vaudeville, and had the largest stage of any theaters on the rail line from Richmond, Virginia to Tennessee. Following the development of talking films it was converted into a movie theater and showed films into the 1960s.
Facing the road on the ground floor are two storefronts that originally housed a bank and a drugstore. The upper two floors were used for offices as well as apartments for visiting performers. 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.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ^ 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
- ^ Gibson Worsham and Charlotte Worsham (August 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Pulaski Historic Commercial District" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources.
