Town Theatre is a historic

community theatre Community theatre refers to any theatrical performance made in relation to particular communities—its usage includes theatre made by, with, and for a community. It may refer to a production that is made entirely by a community with no outside hel ...

located at

Columbia, South Carolina Columbia is the capital of the U.S. state of South Carolina. With a population of 136,632 at the 2020 census, it is the second-largest city in South Carolina. The city serves as the county seat of Richland County, and a portion of the cit ...

. It was built in 1924, and is a rectangular brick building with a two-story glazed central arch with

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 Unit ...

influences. A brick annex was added to the rear of the building in the 1950s. It houses one of the first community theatres in the United States. It was added to the

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in 1974.

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Theatres on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Art Deco architecture in South Carolina Buildings and structures in Columbia, South Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Columbia, South Carolina Theatres completed in 1924 {{ColumbiaSC-struct-stub