Historic Place

Plaza Theatre

El Paso · El Paso County · Dedicated 1987 · THC Atlas #2087000902

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Marker Inscription

Entertainment/Recreation, Architecture

About this site

Plaza Theatre is a historic place in El Paso, El Paso County, dedicated in 1987. It is one of 27 historic places documented in El Paso County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 140 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 31.7592, -106.4897 near El Paso. The nearest cataloged historic site is White House Department Store and Hotel McCoy (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Mills Building, El Camino Real (The King's Highway), and Pioneer Plaza.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2087000902. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

The Plaza Theatre on Pioneer Plaza in downtown El Paso opened on September 12, 1930 as a lavish atmospheric movie palace, its Spanish Colonial Revival design evoking an open-air courtyard beneath a star-lit ceiling. Built for theater operator Louis L. Dent, it seated more than 2,400 and hosted film premieres that drew stars such as John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart. Threatened with demolition in 1989, it was saved by a community campaign and restored, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, later elevated to national significance.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org historicelpaso.com kisselpaso.com

📍 31.7592, -106.4897 · El Paso, El Paso County

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Nearby in El Paso County

Historic Place

White House Department Store and Hotel McCoy

El Camino Real (The King's Highway)