Route 66 Theater - Webb City, Missouri - Art Deco - Art Nouveau on Waymarking.com

24 S. Main Street
Dickenson Theater
ca. 1928
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This is a two-story commercial building with Art Deco detailing and houses a theater, which was renovated to its current style around 1945 according to the tax assessor’s record. A full-width triangular projecting marquee divides the first and second levels. Centered in the façade of the marquee is a neon Route 66 sign. The marquee is trimmed on the bottom with a band of Art Deco scroll design. The first level has two inset entrances each with double wood and glass panel doors painted red with windows trimmed in blue. A glass block ticket booth divides the two entrances and is flanked by curved-to-straight walls clad in Dryvit that hold movie poster windows. The upper level is clad in buff porcelain enameled panels and features a centered slightly projecting curved glass block bay capped with a three-tiered stepped down metal hood. The glass block bay is flanked by full-height, narrow vertical Art Deco style neon lights, followed by rectangle openings with a decorative neon light on a circle base above the rectangular openings and is flanked by full-height narrow vertical Art Deco style neon lights. This building is framed by the original cast iron pilasters that were once part of the Newland Hotel, which partially burned after 1925. Part of this building was constructed from the remains of the hotel, then remodeled in the 1940s to house the Art Deco theater.