The Coliseum Theatre is a historic theater building in Corinth, Mississippi. It is a

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. The theater was designed by Benjamin F. Liddon and built in 1923 and 1924. It is being restored by the Corinth Area Arts Council with federal funding. It has been used as the Corinth Coliseum Civic Center. It was built in the

movie palace A movie palace (or picture palace in the United Kingdom) is any of the large, elaborately decorated movie theaters built between the 1910s and the 1940s. The late 1920s saw the peak of the movie palace, with hundreds opening every year between 192 ...

style of the 1920s with ornate plasterwork and white marble. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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