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  2922 S. Shepherd Drive
endangered
Historic name: Alabama Theater
Recently: Bookstop
Completed: 1939
Architects: Pettigrew & Worley (Dallas)
City of Houston Landmark
The Alabama stopped showing movies in 1983 and the building reopened the following year as Bookstop after a restoration and adaptation designed by Judith Urrutia and Billy Lawrence of San Antonio.
The most recent tenant in the Alabama space was Bookstop, which closed in 2009 after owners Barnes & Noble moved to a new store built on the site of the River Oaks Shopping Center. Weingarten Realty Investors, the property owner, demolished the screen wall and destroyed the auditorium murals in 2011 during work designed to attract a new tenant to the vacant theater space.
above | façade, 2006
detail (top) | façade, 1939
detail (center) | auditorium, 2007
detail (bottom) | pylon sign, 2004
Photo by Jim Parsons |
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