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The Majestic Theatre is a historic 
The theater was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 9, 1985.
movie theater
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located at 240–246 Collinsville Ave. in East St. Louis
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, Illinois. Built in 1928, the theater replaced a 1907 theater which had burned down. The Spanish Gothic
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theater was designed by the Boller Brothers
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, who were nationally prominent theater architects. Multicolored tiles decorate the building's front facade, forming patterned mosaics. The front facade also features piers with decorative peaks and tall arched windows. The theater attracted numerous celebrities to its grand opening, and it represented several firsts among East St. Louis cinemas; it was the first in the city with a modern air conditioning system and the first in Southern Illinois
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to show talkies. The theater closed in the 1960s.
The theater was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 9, 1985.
References
Theatres on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois Theatres completed in 1928 Buildings and structures in St. Clair County, Illinois East St. Louis, Illinois National Register of Historic Places in St. Clair County, Illinois 1928 establishments in Illinois {{StClairCountyIL-geo-stub