824 Broadway, Cape Girardeau, Missouri. County/parish: Cape Girardeau.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 15, 2005. NRIS 05001025.
Part of Cape Girardeau, Missouri MPS (NRIS 64500297).
1 contributing building.
Esquire Theater is a historic movie theater located at Cape Girardeau, Missouri. It was built in 1946–1947, and is a two-story, brick building with a colorful Art Deco facade. The building measures approximately 100 feet by 60 feet. It features a projecting marquee with neon tube lights; a streamlined, curving entrance and ticket booth; a projecting proscenium-like arch; and embellishments including enameled and stainless steel, structural pigmented glass, marble and glass blocks.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. It is located in the Broadway Commercial Historic District.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63817083