New Mission Theater, San Francisco
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| Location | 2550 Mission Street, San Francisco, California, U.S. |
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| Coordinates | 37°45′22″N 122°25′09″W / 37.75622°N 122.41909°W |
| Built | 1916 |
| Architect | Reid Brothers |
| NRHP reference No. | 01001206[1] |
| Added to NRHP | November 9, 2001 |
| Designated | May 27, 2004[2] |
| Reference no. | 245 |
The New Mission Theater is a historic building, built in 1916 and is located at 2550 Mission Street in San Francisco, California.
The building is listed as a San Francisco Designated Landmark since May 27, 2004; and listed as one of the National Register of Historic Places since November 9, 2001.[3][4]
History
[edit]The building originally designed by the Reid Brothers. It was renovated for the Nasser Brothers Theaters circuit in 1932 by Timothy Pflueger, who transformed it into Art Deco-style.[5] It boasts a 70 foot (21 m) marquee sign that is a local landmark. In its early life, it showed mostly "B" movies.
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In the 1960s and 1970s, it specialized in children's fare. The theater closed in 1993 and became a furniture store.[6] It was purchased by the City College of San Francisco, who proposed to raze it and build new campus facilities. But a group called "Save The New Mission Theater", headed by Alfonso Felder, lobbied to stop the college from destroying the theater.[7]
The building was renovated by the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema chain headquartered in Austin, Texas; it re-opened as a movie theater, restaurant, and bar in December 2015, and maintained the name New Mission Theater.[8]
See also
[edit]- List of San Francisco Designated Landmarks
- National Register of Historic Places listings in San Francisco
References
[edit]- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ "City of San Francisco Designated Landmarks". City of San Francisco. Archived from the original on 2014-03-25. Retrieved 2012-10-21.
- ^ "San Francisco Landmark #245: New Mission Theater". noehill.com. Retrieved 2022-11-06.
- ^ "National Register #01001206: New Mission Theater in San Francisco, California". noehill.com. Retrieved 2022-11-06.
- ^ "New Mission Theater". Cinema Treasures.
- ^ Homen, Jenna (September 14, 2015). "A Historical Guide to the 9 Remaining Old Movie Theaters of San Francisco". UpOut.
- ^ Whiting, Sam (May 25, 2015). "Old Mission Theater to rise again as gleaming multiplex". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ Fritsche, Sarah (December 17, 2015). "Alamo Drafthouse's New Mission Theater, including bar Bear vs. Bull, opens today". Inside Scoop SF.
- Theatres in San Francisco
- Cinemas and movie theaters in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Mission District, San Francisco
- Event venues established in 1916
- 1916 establishments in California
- Theatres completed in 1932
- 1932 establishments in California
- Art Deco architecture in California
- Art Deco cinemas and movie theaters
- Reid & Reid buildings
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- San Francisco Designated Landmarks
- National Register of Historic Places in San Francisco