220 Weybosset St., Providence, Rhode Island. County/parish: Providence.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 19, 1977. NRIS 77000027.
1 contributing building.
The Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC), formerly Loew's State Theatre and Palace Concert Theater, is a multi-use not-for-profit theater located at 220 Weybosset Street in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. It was built in 1928 as a movie palace by the Loews Theatres chain to designs by Rapp & Rapp, the leading designers of music palaces at the time. PPAC contains 3,100 seats and hosts touring Broadway shows, concerts, plays and films.
The theater was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 under the name "Loew's State Theatre".
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41375548