Carolina Theatre, also known as the Carolina Civic Center, is a historic movie theater located at Lumberton, Robeson County, North Carolina. It was built in 1927–1928, and is a three-story, Italian Renaissance style brick and terra cotta building. The theatre closed in 1975[2] amid a general exodus of businesses from downtown Lumberton. Plans were made to demolish it and build a parking lot, but community activists lobbied to have the building spared. It was reopened as the Carolina Civic Center in 1985 and underwent renovations in 2008.[3]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.[1] It is located in the Lumberton Commercial Historic District at 319 North Chestnut Street.
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Davyd Foard Hood and Edward F. Turberg (December 1980). "Carolina Theatre" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved February 1, 2015.
- ^ Nagem, Sarah (November 29, 2022). "Downtown Lumberton envisions a big transformation, starting with Carolina Civic Center". Border Belt Independent. Retrieved December 2, 2022.
External links
Media related to Carolina Civic Center (Lumberton, North Carolina) at Wikimedia Commons
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