Loew's Valencia Theatre
18 W. Lexington Street,
Baltimore,
MD
21202
18 W. Lexington Street,
Baltimore,
MD
21202
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Previously operated by: Loew's Inc., United Artists Theater Circuit Inc.
Architects: John Adolph Emil Eberson
Styles: Atmospheric, Spanish Moorish
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In 1921, the Loew’s Century Theatre (it has its own page on Cinema Treasures) opened on W. Lexington Street between Charles Street and Cathedral Street, designed by John J. Zink, complete with a ballroom above the theatre.
Five years later, architect John Eberson was hired to convert the former ballroom space into a theatre, designed in Atmospheric style, and called Loew’s Valencia Theatre, which opened on December 24, 1926 with Mae Murray in “Valencia” (A private screening had been held on the previous evening). Seating was provided on a single floor, apart from two small private boxes on each side of the projection booth.
The Loew’s Valencia Theatre was closed on May 18, 1952 (the Loew’s Century Theatre closed in early-1960), and both were razed in 1962, to make way for an office building, the Charles Center.
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I found some material on the Valencia which states that the theatre closed for good in 1955.
The Valencia opened on 24 December 1926 and had 1400 seats.
This theatre is not to be confused with the Loews Velencia in New York.
Thats should be Queens New York.
Is this the theatre that had a sky scene showing a bird slowly moving across the ceiling?
Marcus Loew was born on this date in 1870.Happy 141th.