State Theatre (Easton, Pennsylvania)

	State Theatre
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	The interior of Easton's State Theater in 2018
Location	453 Northampton St., Easton, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°41′29″N 75°12′45″W / 40.69139°N 75.21250°W
Area	0.6 acres (0.24 ha)
Built	1910, 1925
Architect	Lee, W.H.
Architectural style	Beaux Arts
NRHP reference No.	82003804
Added to NRHP	March 4, 1982

The State Theatre, officially known as the State Theatre Center for the Arts, is a 1,500-seat, historic, American theater that is located in the City of Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.^[1]

History

The building began to take its present form in 1910, when modified from a bank building to a vaudeville theater, called the Neumeyers Vaudeville House. The building was extensively modified in 1926, to include a larger auditorium, balcony, and lush decorations; at that time it was renamed "The State." The building is asymmetrical with a cut stone Beaux-Arts style facade and large overhanging marquee.^[2]

The theater has hosted the Freddy Awards, which honor the best in high school theater programs in the Lehigh Valley, every year since the inaugural show in 2003.^[3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Janet M. Dach; Margaret D. Druse & Susan Zacher (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: State Theatre" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-10-29.
^ "Looking back on a decade of Freddy Awards". The Express-Times. 2012-05-20. Retrieved 2018-05-23.

External links

Media related to State Theatre (Easton, Pennsylvania) at Wikimedia Commons

State Theatre Center for the Arts website

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[arch-2] "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Janet M. Dach; Margaret D. Druse & Susan Zacher (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: State Theatre" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-10-29.

[3] "Looking back on a decade of Freddy Awards". The Express-Times. 2012-05-20. Retrieved 2018-05-23.

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