Orpheum Theater

St. Louis, United States

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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The Orpheum Theater in St. Louis is a Beaux-Arts style theater designed by architect G. Albert Lansburgh and completed in 1917. Built at a cost of $500,000 by local millionaire Louis A. Cella, it opened on Labor Day as a vaudeville venue. As live performance declined, Warner Brothers acquired the theater in 1930 and operated it as a movie house through the 1960s. The building was restored in the 1970s, renamed the American Theater, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It later became the Roberts Orpheum Theater under new ownership before closing in 2012.