New Amsterdam Theatre

Manhattan, United States

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The New Amsterdam Theatre is a Broadway venue at 214 West 42nd Street in Manhattan's Theater District, designed by the architectural firm Herts & Tallant and completed in 1903. Among the first Broadway theaters to emerge in Times Square, the building combines a Beaux-Arts limestone and brick facade with an Art Nouveau interior. Its distinctive 10-story office wing faces 42nd Street, while the elliptical auditorium, seating 1,702 across three levels with two cantilevered balconies, faces 41st Street. A now-disused roof theater, which opened in 1904, originally served as both a performance space and studio. Klaw and Erlanger operated the theater after its October 1903 opening; from 1913 to 1927 it housed the Ziegfeld Follies under producer Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. Converted to a movie theater in 1937, it remained in that use until 1983. Following renovation by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer from 1995 to 1997, the theater was leased and operated by The Walt Disney Company. Both the exterior and interior are designated New York City landmarks and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Architect

Henry Beaumont Herts

Movement

Art Nouveau architecture Beaux-Arts

Built: 1903
Type: theatre building, movie theater
Heritage: New York City Landmark, National Register of Historic Places listed place
Place: Manhattan, United States

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