Palais Royale Building, also known as the Lippman Building, is a historic commercial building located in

South Bend South Bend is a city in and the county seat of St. Joseph County, Indiana, on the St. Joseph River near its southernmost bend, from which it derives its name. As of the 2020 census, the city had a total of 103,453 residents and is the fourt ...

, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It was built in 1922 along with the neighboring Palace Theater by the Palace Theater Corporation. It is a three-story, rectangular, Spanish Renaissance Revival-style brick building with finely crafted

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ornamentation. It features a series of monumental semi-elliptical arched windows. The interior originally housed a two-story ballroom. A bombing on January 10, 1935, blew out most of the storefront windows and destroyed the corner suite. ''Note:'' This includes and Accompanying photographs It was listed on the

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in 1983.

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Palais Royale Ballroom
Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Renaissance Revival architecture in Indiana Commercial buildings completed in 1922 Buildings and structures in South Bend, Indiana National Register of Historic Places in St. Joseph County, Indiana {{StJosephCountyIN-NRHP-stub