Orpheum Building
- Architect
- B. Marcus Priteca
- Year
- 1926
- Style
- Spanish Colonial Revival
- City
- San Francisco, CA
The Orpheum Building is a 1926 movie palace designed by B. Marcus Priteca, a noted theater architect, in the ornate Neo-Plateresque style. It's a San Francisco Designated Landmark, and its elaborate facade is still visible from the street today.
the building
Neo-Plateresque facade. The Orpheum's ornate Neo-Plateresque facade marks it as a movie palace built to impress from the sidewalk, part of the wave of elaborately dressed theaters built for the movie-going public in the 1920s.
the style
Neo-Plateresque draws on the ornamental Spanish Plateresque tradition, and here it gives the Orpheum's facade the dense, sculptural decoration typical of 1920s movie palaces.
More on Spanish Colonial Revivalthe architect
B. Marcus Priteca was a noted theater architect, and the Orpheum, completed in 1926, reflects his specialty in designing ornate movie palaces.
significance
The Orpheum Building is a San Francisco Designated Landmark.
nearby
- Federal Office Building
- San Francisco Public Library
- The Old Main Library
- San Francisco Federal Building
- San Francisco Proper Hotel
- San Francisco City Hall