Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto, CA (1925)

AKA: Stanford Theater, Palo Alto, CA

Structure Type: built works - performing arts structures - theatres

Designers: Heinsbergen Decorating Company, Interior Designers (firm); Weeks and Day, Architects (firm); William Peyton Day (structural engineer); Anthony T. Heinsbergen (interior designer); Charles Peter Weeks (architect)

Dates: constructed 1925

221 University Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94301-1712
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Single screen theater renovated by the David and Lucille Packard Foundation in 1987; it is one of the nation's best venues for viewing motion pictures produced mostly between 1920-1965; the building seats 1,175; it accommodated 1,454 when first built.

David Woodley Packard acting for the David and Lucille Packard Foundation purchased the theatre in 1987 and restored it into a venue showing classic movies.

PCAD id: 799

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