I recently visited Everett Square Theater, in Boston MA. The theater was built as a Vaudeville Theater, and still has Milton Berle’s signature on the wall from 1925. The theater went on to be be a movie theater and an auction house before being abandoned. The current own is working on stabilizing the building. The building has many unique details, including notes on the projection booth walls about running the carbon arc projector lamps that were used decades ago.
The Paramount Theater in Springfield, Massachusetts is on the verge of its second rebirth. Built in the 1920s, it was first restored in 1986. Over the intervening years, its condition declined before it closed in 2015 with a badly leaking roof. The current owner is obtaining grants and other funding for a full renovation, estimated to cost $40 million. Photographed in October of 2018.
Victory Theater is located in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Abandoned for years, areas show considerable amounts of decay, while other areas are merely more than dirty and dated. The owners expect to begin restoration in the spring.
