Paramount Theatre, Sunrise Avenue & North County Road, Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, FL: History and Collection Facts

Collection details

• Catalogue date: Documentation compiled after 1933
• Original format: Photo, print, drawing
• Medium: Measured Drawing(s): 2; Photo Caption Page(s): 2; Color Transparencies: 1; Data Page(s): 18; Photo(s): 15
• Language: English
• Location as catalogued: Florida -- Palm Beach County -- Palm Beach; Palm Beach County; Palm Beach; Florida
• 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 FLA,50-PALM,5-
• Catalogue subjects: Florida -- Palm Beach County -- Palm Beach; theaters; motion picture theaters
• Named contributors: Kasparek, Kate — transmitter; Urban, Joseph Maria; Historic American Buildings Survey — creator

Catalogue notes

• Building/structure dates: 1926 Initial Construction
• Significance: Built as a movie theatre just before the advent of talking films, it is one of the last theatres built especially for silent movies. However, its architect, the Viennese Joseph Maria Urban, a noted theatre architect and stage designer, saw to it that the theatre was acoustically suited to the musical accompaniment of silent films, to which purpose he had installed a large pipe organ, as well as to the sound of live stage performances. These acoustics of the house would serve also the talking picture, of whose impending approach Urban was well aware. Entered on National Register 12/12/73.
• National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 73000599

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.