Paramount Theater
426 S. Salina Street,
Syracuse,
NY
13202
426 S. Salina Street,
Syracuse,
NY
13202
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The Paramount Theatre opened on December 5, 1929. According to a newspaper article in the Fayetteville Bulletin, the Temple Theatre was completely remodeled and re-named the Paramount Theatre. “Practically everything within the building is new from basement to roof”. At the time of opening, it was owned by the Publix Theaters Corporation.
From what I’ve been able to puzzle out from a number of fragments in a long list of sources, a theater called the Temple was built on this site by a William Cahill in 1914, and was designed by a local architect named James A. Randall. In the late 1920s, it was leased to the Schine circuit, and in 1929 it was either remodeled or rebuilt to plans by Thomas Lamb, and became the Paramount.
The office building in front of the theater was called the Cahill Block, and dated from 1913-1914. The Temple Theatre’s auditorium seated about 1,200, so at the very least it had to have been expanded if it was converted into the larger Paramount. At least one source implies, though doesn’t state explicitly, that the Temple was demolished and replaced, while other sources imply, but don’t explicitly state, that the Temple was only remodeled.
I’m hoping somebody will be able to come up with other sources that solve this puzzle. I’ve pretty much exhausted the sources available on the Internet.
Here is a December 23, 1953 ad from the Syracuse Herald Journal:
http://tinyurl.com/7dnp4o