Paramount Theatre
1125 Third Street,
Alexandria,
LA
71301
1125 Third Street,
Alexandria,
LA
71301
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Originally built as the Rapides Opera House. By 1941 it was operating as the Paramount Theatre. The Film Daily Yearbook of 1950 shows it being open with seating for 800. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
Any additional information on the Paramount would be appreciated.
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Here is a postcard picture of the Paramount Theater.
This is a picture of a Rapides Theater in Alexandria, LA.
A Robert-Morton theater organ size 2/5 was installed in the Paramount Theater in 1928.
1982 photo of the Paramount Theatre.
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Close up of the Marquee in 1982.
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Here is a 1912 photo from Duke University archives:
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This is a 1983 photo.
The Favrot of Favrot & Livaudais, architects of the Rapides Opera House, was Charles A. Favrot. His partner was Louis A. Livaudais. Favrot’s son, H. Mortimer Favrot, worked in the office of Favrot & Livaudais until 1934, when he formed the firm of Favrot & Reed with Alan C. Reed. Favrot & Reed went on to design at least three theaters.
According to the street view of this theatre the building is still standing with a vertical spelling Repides. Has it been demolished since the3 google mobile did the street view?
Chuck, the building with the “Rapides” vertical sign on it isn’t the theater. It’s on the side of the street with even-numbered addresses, but the Paramount had an odd-numbered address. The theater was across the street and down the block a bit, and it has been gone for about two decades now.
From the configuration of show windows and the deco detailing, the building with the Rapides sign looks like it might have been a dime store or a department store. Whatever it was originally, it is now the Rapides Foundation Building (the vertical sign has a side attachment with “Foundation” in smaller letters,) which runs all the way to 4th Street. Google doesn’t have street views for the Johnston Street or 4th Street sides of the building, but there’s a decent bird’s-eye at Bing Maps.
Restored postcard uploaded here.