{"nrhp_refnum":"91001383","name":"State Theatre","other_names":["State Theater"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1489 Myers St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Oroville","county":"Butte County","state":"CA","lat":39.51268764300005,"lon":-121.55447602399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-09-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Entertainment/Recreation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Spanish Colonial Revival/Moorish Revival movie theatre with ground-floor shops and second-floor offices at 1489 Myers Street, Oroville, Butte County, California, designed in 1927 and built 1927-28 for the T&D theater chain.","why_significant":"It was Oroville's first theater designed specifically for motion pictures and its first Spanish Colonial Revival building, and it was a focus of local and regional entertainment and community events. It reflects the late 1920s building boom tied to the planned Feather River Highway. It is also a work of San Francisco architect Timothy Pflueger.","narrative":"Built in 1927-28 at the corner of Myers and Robinson Streets in Oroville, this reinforced concrete theatre combines Spanish Colonial Revival detailing with a Moorish Revival plaster grillework around the proscenium. San Francisco architect Timothy Pflueger designed it for the T&D theater chain, with Smith Brothers of Los Angeles as contractor. Shops occupied the ground floor and offices the second. It was the first Oroville theater designed specifically for motion pictures and the city's first Spanish Colonial Revival building, and it opened during a period of local prosperity linked to citrus farming, gold dredging and the planned Feather River Highway. Its annual Christmas parties and stage shows tied it closely to community life. Later divided into two theaters, it was bought by the city in 1986, restored to a single auditorium and reopened in 1987. Despite altered storefronts and replaced fixtures, it retains much of its original character and remains Oroville's premier theater.","period_of_significance":"1928-1932","architect_builder":"Pflueger, Timothy","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals: Spanish Colonial Revival/Moorish Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"City-owned and still operating as a community theater and performance venue, seating 612 on the main floor. The balcony and loges are not in use because of inadequate emergency egress, and the second floor is used for storage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:28.080586-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/91001383.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001383/c93b648fd1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001383/c93b648fd1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Frank Schulenburg","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oroville_State_Theatre_during_blue_hour_(2024)-L1005456.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Frank Schulenburg</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oroville_State_Theatre_during_blue_hour_(2024)-L1005456.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123858460","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44875352"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/butte-county/state-theatre-91001383/"}