Grand Riviera Theatre, 9222 Grand River Avenue, Detroit, MI: History and Collection Facts

Collection details

• Catalogue date: Documentation compiled after 1933
• Original format: Photo, print, drawing
• Medium: Photo(s): 28; Data Page(s): 25; Measured Drawing(s): 6
• Language: English
• Location as catalogued: Michigan -- Detroit; Michigan; Detroit
• Collection: Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Call number: HABS MICH,82-DETRO,16-
• Catalogue subjects: motion picture theaters; Michigan -- Detroit
• Named contributors: Wheeler, Lucy Pope — historian; Morrison, Andrew Craig — delineator; Myers, Denys Peter — architectural historian; Fraser, Clayton — delineator; Eberson, John; Historic American Buildings Survey — creator; Stross, Allen — photographer; Boucher, Jack E. — photographer

Catalogue notes

• Building/structure dates: 1925 Initial Construction
• Significance: The Grand Riviera is a representative example of a large neighborhood moving picture theatre of the mid-1920s. The octagonal corner entrance tower is a distinctive feature of the exterior, and the "atmospheric," or outdoor effect of the auditorium, a popular novelty of the period, is a freely romanticized representation of a Mediterranean garden.

Sources and reuse

This guide reorganizes bibliographic facts and catalogue descriptions from the Library of Congress Free to Use and Reuse data package, a published snapshot documented in 2024. The original item record identifies the source material. Item-level image rights statement: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114\_habs.html Audio, films, scores and full-text works are linked through the original record rather than reproduced here.