{"nrhp_refnum":"86000303","name":"Stanley Theater and Clark Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"207 Seventh St. and 701--717 Liberty Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pittsburgh","county":"Allegheny County","state":"PA","lat":40.44309503800008,"lon":-79.99963910899999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-02-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Entertainment/Recreation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A downtown Pittsburgh movie palace, the Stanley Theater, and the adjoining Clark Building, an office tower, occupying the block of Seventh Street between Penn and Liberty Avenues. Both are faced in yellow-gray brick with limestone and terra cotta trim.","why_significant":"The nomination describes the Stanley as Pennsylvania's best preserved masterpiece from the movie palace era just before the Great Depression, and one of few surviving works by the Hoffman-Henon Company, a leading theater firm of the 1920s. The paired theater and office tower is presented as an early example of multi-use urban development in the downtown, and the interiors are described as largely intact.","narrative":"Built in 1926-1927 on Seventh Street between Penn and Liberty Avenues in Pittsburgh, the Stanley Theater and the Clark Building form a single project divided by Exchange Place Alley. Both are faced in yellow-gray brick with limestone and terra cotta trim in the English Neo-Adam style. The Stanley's interior, which seated nearly 4,100 people, rises through several lobbies with polychromed plasterwork and a barrel-vaulted main lobby. The Clark Building, named for James Clark, vice-president of the Stanley-Clark Motion Picture Company, is a twenty-two-story office tower. The Hoffman-Henon Company of Philadelphia designed both. Its theaters, including the Stanley, were among the period's most important, and the Pittsburgh example is the only one of its landmark downtown group that survives. The pairing of theater and office tower is cited as an early model of mixed-use urban development.","period_of_significance":"1926-1927","architect_builder":"Hoffman-Henon Company (architects)","architectural_style":"English Neo-Adam Style","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The exteriors are described as remarkably intact, with modest entrance changes; the marquee has been covered with modern metal and the bulbs removed from the central panel.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.396513-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/86000303.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000303/dbb350057f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000303/dbb350057f-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"PerryPlanet","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pittsburgh_benedumcenter.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">PerryPlanet</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pittsburgh_benedumcenter.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"13000251","name":"Pittsburgh Central Downtown Historic District (Boundary Increase)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/pittsburgh-central-downtown-historic-district-boundary-increase-13000251/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997780","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedum_Center","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q817087"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/allegheny-county/stanley-theater-and-clark-building-86000303/"}