Art Jerome Theatre
1 W. Tremont Avenue,
Bronx,
NY
10453
1 W. Tremont Avenue,
Bronx,
NY
10453
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Previously operated by: Consolidated Amusement Company
Architects: Nathan Rotholz
Functions: Church
Previous Names: Hughs Theatre, Jerome Theatre
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Originally the Hughs Theatre. The Jerome Theatre opened in 1926 and could seat 1,660. It was operated by the Consolidated Amusement Company chain. It was located on the northwest corner of W. Tremont Avenue and Jerome Avenue in the Tremont section of the Bronx. It was equipped with a Wurlitzer 2 manual 9 ranks organ.
In the 1950’s, the Jerome Theatre was renamed the Art Jerome Theatre. It now houses a church.
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Still listed as the Jerome Theater in the 1960 yellow pages. Phone number was CYpress 9-1150.
Here’s a photo as church. I can’t quite make out the date stamp, but could be 1998: http://irmaml.tripod.com/index7/jerome_1.html
1946 photo added courtesy of the AmeriCar The Beautiful Facebook page.
Should be at the NW corner of West Tremont Ave. and Jerome Ave.
“Cool it” Comfortably.
“Architect” didn’t used to be a verb, and I doubt if many, (and maybe not any) building architects use it as such yet, but it has been used as a verb for quite a while now in the IT industry. I don’t know that many actual software architects use it as a verb, either, but people in IT management commonly do. At one time “engineer” and “doctor” were not used as verbs, either, but both are standard usage now. “To architect” is still at a stage where it sounds like jargon to most people, including me.
But language does drift, so maybe it will catch on, and maybe it won’t. I wouldn’t want to bet that “to architect” won’t eventually become common usage. Popular usage is unpredictable. As Calvin said, verbing weirds language, and that can be both fun and useful. Of course, as an English major, I will go on using designed, and keep architect as a noun. If, fifty years hence, my traditional usage sounds stodgy and old fashioned, well, I doubt anything I’ve written will survive that long, and even if it does, something will have deaded me by then, so I won’t be around to care.
Do the trains still go through this building?
This theater advertised in the New York papers as the “ART JEROME” or “ART-Jerome Ave” from 1964 to 1976.
Another Bronx theater, located at 1077 Southern Boulevard, advertised as “ART SOUTHERN” (or variations thereof). In the Photos section, an ad from August 1976 shows both theaters playing the movie “Squirm.”
Address is 1 West Tremont Avenue. Rolling doors are pictured open in the October 2019 Google street view. 2009 photos as True Gospel Tabernacle Church in below link.
http://michaelminn.net/newyork/theatres/movie-theatres/jerome-theatre/index.html
You could hear the trains in the auditorium