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Pantages, Alexander, Theater
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| Location: | 1400 Fulton Street Fresno, California |
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| Built: | 1928 |
| Architect: | B. Marcus Priteca |
| Architectural style: | Spanish Colonial Revival |
| Governing body: | Board of Directors/ Non-profit |
| NRHP Reference#: | 78000663 [1] |
| Added to NRHP: | February 23, 1978 |
Warnors Theatre is an historic theater in downtown Fresno, California. The two thousand seat venue opened in 1928 as the Pantages Theater, after the name of its then owner, Alexander Pantages, and later, the Warner Theater in 1929 after it was purchased by Warner Brothers. The name was changed again in the 1960s to "Warnors" to avoid trademark issues.
The theater was designed by B. Marcus Priteca, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[2] The theater has a pipe organ, which was manufactured by the Robert Morton Organ Company of Van Nuys, California and installed in 1928. The organ boasts 14 ranks built with 1,035 pipes and a four-manual console with 720 keys, pedals and combination pistons. The organ was used primarily for motion pictures until 1973. Because of the cost of paying orchestra members, most accompanying orchestras were replaced with pipe organs.[3]
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