212 S. Michigan, South Bend, Indiana. County/parish: St. Joseph.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 05, 1985. NRIS 85001204.
Part of Downtown South Bend Historic MRA (NRIS 64000188).
1 contributing building.
Blackstone-State Theater is a historic theater building located at South Bend, Indiana. It was built in 1919, and is a four-story, Classical Revival style brick and terra cotta building. The first floor has four storefronts and the theater entrance. The upper floors form a loggia that rises to the fourth floor and supported by four pairs of fluted columns. The theater originally sat 2,500 patrons.
The theater was closed between 1977 and 1994, and it closed again in 2016. In 2025 the South Bend Redevelopment Commission bought the theater, performed improvements, and put it up for bid.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/132002062