Capitol Theater

Capitol Theater/Stax Recording Studio

STAX Music Academy and Museum of American Soul Music, Memphis, by Looney Ricks Kiss Architects and Self Tucker Architects
The STAX Museum of American Soul Music is not only located on the site, it also re-creates the original building—the 1930s Capitol Theater—that housed the once-prominent STAX Recording Studio. The clients, a not-for-profit foundation, wanted a museum to showcase and memorialize the genesis and evolution of America’s soul music. They also wanted as part of the music campus a separate music academy that would intervene in the lives of at-risk inner city youth and help revitalize the surrounding distressed neighborhood known as Soulsville, USA. “This one is about community building at the scale of the neighborhood, it emphasizes a local part of the history and culture of Memphis,” said the jury. “We support this one for social reasons, as well as for its design merits. It has an exuberance and a vitality to its forms.”
Photo © Albert Vecerka/ESTO Photographics.

Here is a photo of Soulsville U.S.A.

1983 photo of the Capitol Theatre. Not is very great shape in this photo.
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