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Texas Theater

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1929, W. Scott Dunne; 1950 altered. 33–35 W. Twohig Ave.

This enormous theater, built by Harold B. Robb and E. H. Rawley’s R & R Theatre Company with nearly 1,500 seats, has a monumental facade composed of an Art Deco–styled stepped plaster frontispiece added in 1950, with the earlier, towered Romanesque Revival fortress rising behind, architecturally quite similar to Dunne’s Ritz Theater in Corpus Christi. The Texas closed in 1971, and underfunded renovations c. 2008 left the Spanish style “atmospheric” interior in poor condition. Although lacking its neon tubing, the marquee is original to the 1950 refacing.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Verizon Building (San Angelo Telephone Company Building)
Old San Angelo National Bank
Stephens Central Library (Hemphill-Wells Department Store)
R. E. Harris and Brother Building
Houses on West Twohig Avenue

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Texas Theater", [San Angelo, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-SS17.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 411-412.

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