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Tybee Post Theater (Post Theater, Fort Screven)

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1932; 2000–2015 renovation and restoration, Tybee Island Historical Society. Van Horne Ave., west of 2nd Ave.

The long, front-gabled hall with a shorter front-gabled entrance pavilion was a widely employed design for army theaters, and this example is virtually identical to scores of others. Built with a capacity of 398, it was among the first motion picture theaters in the area equipped for sound movies. The brick exterior evokes the Colonial Revival style with straight-line gables, simple corner pilasters, cornice returns, and round-arched windows with prominent keystones. After the post closed, this building was reopened in 1946 as the Beach Theater and continued operation until c. 1962; it was acquired by the Tybee Island Historical Society in 2001 and is now owned and maintained by the Friends of Tybee Theater. Historic 1940s seats salvaged from the SCAD Trustees Theater (3.10) were installed in 2015 as part of a multiyear renovation conducted by J. T. Turner Construction.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler
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What's Nearby

Houses (Officers Row, Fort Screven)
Tybee Community Center (Guardhouse, Fort Screven)
Fort Screven Batteries
Fort Screven
Tybee Island Light Station

Citation

Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "Tybee Post Theater (Post Theater, Fort Screven)", [Tybee Island, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-15.6.3.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 239-240.

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