AKA: Strand Theater, Berkeley, CA; Elmwood Theatre, Berkeley, CA

Structure Type: built works - performing arts structures - theatres

Designers: Cornelius, Albert W., Architect (firm); Alexander Aimwell Cantin (architect); Albert W. Cornelius (architect)

Dates: [unspecified]

2946 College Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705-2204

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Began as the Strand Theatre, became the Elmwood; a small venue, it seated 740 originally;

Altered after its name was changed to the Elmwood Theatre, c. 1947; altered into a tri-plex theatre after a fire (started in a building next door) occurred 10/1988; United Artists. the owner before the fire, tried to sell the parcel to a developer after the blaze, but neighborhood protests put an end to that; the main alteration after the fire was that two theatres were formed from one of its original balconies; the developer who tri-plexed the Elmwood obtained Art Deco light fixtures from the Merced Theatre, Merced, CA;

PCAD id: 3359