Commodore Theatre is an historic movie theater located at Portsmouth, Virginia. It was built in 1945, and is an

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...

style, 1,000-seat theater building. The two-story front facade features a plain mass of yellow pressed brick decorated with horizontal stripes of brown brick on the upper level with a central pavilion of curved-top vertical pylons of Indiana limestone and decorative strips of glass block. The lower level of the facade is composed of Indiana limestone ashlar veneer with a base of black marble. A dominant element of the auditorium is the pair of restored murals on the side walls representing the progress of America and the commerce and industry of Hampton Roads. an
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/ref> The theater currently offers first-run films on a nightly basis, featuring Dolby Digital and THX sound, accompanied by a full dining experience serviced by a full kitchen in the main building. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

in 1997. It is located in the

Downtown Portsmouth Historic District Downtown Portsmouth Historic District, also known as the High Street Corridor Historic District, is a national historic district located at Portsmouth, Virginia. It encompasses 229 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, 4 contributing st ...

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External links

Commodore Theatre website
Theatres on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Art Deco architecture in Virginia Theatres completed in 1945 Buildings and structures in Portsmouth, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Portsmouth, Virginia Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Virginia {{PortsmouthVA-NRHP-stub