Regent Theater
316 W. Western Avenue,
Muskegon,
MI
49440
316 W. Western Avenue,
Muskegon,
MI
49440
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The Regent Theater was bombed during a labor dispute March 17, 1930. From the below article: “The Regent Theater was eventually repaired at little cost to owner P.J. Schlossman. Prompted by similar bombings in Grand Rapids, he had obtained explosion insurance two weeks before the Regent Theater bombing.”
https://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/2016/07/1930_bombing_of_regent_theater.html
The Regent theatre opened on January 17th, 1916
The Regent Theatre was built by local exhibitor Paul Schlossman, who later built the Michigan Theatre, now the Frauenthal Center for the Performing Arts. Like the Michigan, the Regent was designed by Detroit architect C. Howard Crane.
Schlossman’s obituary in Billboard of January 28, 1950, said that he bought three theaters at Muskegon in 1913, and later built the Regent and Michigan Theatres in Muskegon and the Strand Theatre in Muskegon Heights.
This brief biography7 of Schlossman at the Frauenthal Center web site notes that he also built the Rialto and Majestic Theatres in Muskegon, and says that they were also designed by Crane.