{"nrhp_refnum":"01000561","name":"Schine's Holland Theatre","other_names":["Holland Theatre","Log-240-7"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"125 E. Columbus St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bellefontaine","county":"Logan County","state":"OH","lat":40.36152491100006,"lon":-83.75861963999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-05-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Schine's Holland Theatre is a 1931 movie theater with an attached office and lobby block at 125 East Columbus Street in downtown Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio. It was designed by architect Peter M. Hulsken and built by Hoseler Bros. for the Schine Circuit Theatres.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the theater is significant under Criterion C as a unique variant of the early 20th century \"atmospheric theater.\" It is described as the only known 20th century theater in the United States designed in a Dutch motif. It also retains a high level of integrity that conveys the time and place of its creation.","narrative":"Completed in February 1931, this Bellefontaine movie house was built for the Schine Circuit Theatres, a chain of about 150 theaters in six states. Architect Peter Hulsken, born in Arnhem in the Netherlands, designed it as a \"Dutch atmospheric\" theater. The front office and lobby block has a steep slate roof, a stepped Flemish-style gable, stone cartouches and arched bands of brick and stone. Inside, the 1,000-seat auditorium was meant to feel like walking down a Dutch village street, with building facades drawn from towns such as Veere and Arnhem, lit windows, streetlamps, tulips and windmills with turning vanes. Hulsken copyrighted the design in 1930. The theater was multiplexed into five spaces in the late 1970s, and the marquee and vertical sign are gone, but major decorative elements survive and the partitions were being removed. The theater is considered the only known example of its type in the United States and is valued for architecture and its high integrity.","period_of_significance":"1931","architect_builder":"Peter M. Hulsken, architect, Lima, OH; Hoseler Bros., contractors, Tiffin, OH","architectural_style":"Early 20th Century American Movements/Other/Dutch Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Work in progress as a theater: the 1970s multiplex partitions were being removed by the current owners to restore the full auditorium; the office/lobby block's current function is listed as commerce/office.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.678779-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/01000561.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000561/2059e05f72-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000561/2059e05f72-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":null,"credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bellefontaine-ohio-holland-theatre.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown author</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bellefontaine-ohio-holland-theatre.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100005213","name":"Downtown Bellefontaine Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/downtown-bellefontaine-historic-district-100005213/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989742","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland_Theater","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5881094"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/logan-county/schines-holland-theatre-01000561/"}