State Theater
719 Congress Avenue,
Austin,
TX
78701
719 Congress Avenue,
Austin,
TX
78701
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Orginally built in 1935 by Interstate Circuit Inc., the State Theater opened on Christmas Day 1935 with “The Bride Comes Home”, a comedy with Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray. It was a conversion of an existing building to the plans of architect W. Scott Dunne.
It was the fourth of the Interstate Circuit’s Austin Theatres (the Paramount Theatre, Queen Theatre and Capitol Theatre were the others)
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Two 1984 photos are here:
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The State and Paramount can be seen in this photo:
http://tinyurl.com/nrua3u
Here is a 2009 close-up view.
Of the four theatres that Interstate had in downtown Austin, three were located in the same block, the Paramount and state on one side of Congress and the Queen across the street on Congress. All three buildings are still standing and two used for theatre’s.
December 2009 photo of the State Theatre courtesy TooMuschFire.
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Here is a photo:
http://tinyurl.com/ylycymh
2009 photo showing the verticle and part of the marquee of the State Theatre.
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Very Nice looking theatre.
A photo from December 2009:
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It’s too bad that very nice old marquee ca’t be used because of the tree blocking any view of it; I’m just betting that, in Austin, you’d have a hard time getting a permit to cut the tree.