Carolina Theatre, also known as the Carolina Civic Center, is a historic movie theater located at Lumberton, Robeson County, North Carolina. It was built in 1927–1928, and is a three-story, Italian Renaissance style brick and terra cotta building. The theatre closed in 1975[2] amid a general exodus of businesses from downtown Lumberton. Plans were made to demolish it and build a parking lot, but community activists lobbied to have the building spared. It was reopened as the Carolina Civic Center in 1985 and underwent renovations in 2008.[3]
Carolina Theatre | |
_E_entrance1.JPG) Carolina Civic Center, December 2014 | |
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| Location | 319 N. Chestnut St., Lumberton, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 34°37′9″N 79°0′30″W / 34.61917°N 79.00833°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1927-1928 |
| Built by | Underwood, U.A., Construction Co. |
| Architect | Dixon, S.S. |
| Architectural style | Italian Renaissance |
| NRHP reference No. | 81000426[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 9, 1981 |
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.[1] It is located in the Lumberton Commercial Historic District at 319 North Chestnut Street.
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Davyd Foard Hood and Edward F. Turberg (December 1980). "Carolina Theatre" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
- ^ Nagem, Sarah (November 29, 2022). "Downtown Lumberton envisions a big transformation, starting with Carolina Civic Center". Border Belt Independent. Retrieved December 2, 2022.
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