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COLISEUM THEATER

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1924, B. F. Liddon; 1980s restored, Ledbetter Associates. 404–408 Taylor St.

This blond brick building with three-centered arches is the last recorded work by local banker, movie enthusiast, and self-taught architect-builder Benjamin Franklin Liddon. The much altered Gem Theater at 603–605 Cruise Street was his first movie house. He built a theater on this Taylor Street site in 1913 for silent films, closed it in 1923, and replaced it with the thousand-seat Coliseum Theater, a movie-palace type with elaborate plaster and white marble interiors. Its metal entrance canopy originally carried neon signage.

Nearby at 601 Cruise Street is Liddon’s first local design, the former Citizens Savings Bank of c. 1903. It is a formidable three-story Richardsonian Romanesque building with heavily rusticated stone masonry, cyclopean voussoirs, and a stunted column at its arched corner entrance beneath an embedded circular tower.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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What's Nearby

ALCORN COUNTY COURTHOUSE
TRUSTMARK BANK (FIRST NATIONAL BANK)
OLD CORINTH CLOTHING MANUFACTURING COMPANY
LIDDON HOUSE
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "COLISEUM THEATER", [Corinth, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-NE6.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 163-163.

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