The Paramount Theatre Building is a historic

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and

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and now

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, located at 145 North County Road and Sunrise Avenue, Palm Beach,

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History

It was designed in the

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and Spanish Colonial Revival styles by Joseph Urban in 1926. Urban also designed the nearby Mar-a-Lago and the Palm Beach Bath and Tennis Club. By contrast to the Ziegfeld Theatre (1927), which Urban designed to bathe the audience in warmth and a general atmosphere of colorful gaiety, the Paramount Theatre employs simple lines and a cool, leisured palette of silver and green. "The theatre," Urban explained, "is not an escape from the life around, but a part of it, fitting into the rhythm of the community. The architecture of the Paramount Theatre … is accordingly simple, spacious, Southern." On December 12, 1973, it was added to the

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Church

The Paramount Theatre Building now houses the Paramount

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, a non-denominational

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in Palm Beach. The Senior Pastor and Founder of Paramount Church is Rev. Dwight Stevens. The church sold the building in March 2021 to Woerners.

References

https://therealdeal.com/miami/2021/03/24/woerners-buy-historic-paramount-theatre-in-palm-beach-for-14m/

External links

Flheritage: Florida Office of Cultural and Historical Programs

Flheritage: Paramount Theatre Building

Flheritage: Palm Beach County listingsOfficial Paramount Church Website
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