:: Coconut
Grove Playhouse
3500 Main Highway
Year Built: 1926
Year Remodeled: 1955
Architects: Kiehnel and Elliot (1926), Alfred Browning Parker (1955)
Date Designated: Pending
b. When Miami entrepreneurs Irving J. Thomas and Fin L. Pierce planned
"The Grove," a luxurious movie theater for the Paramount Enterprises
chain, the building was designed to resemble a Spanish Rococo palace.
Reduced to a second-run theater after World War II, the building was shuttered
in 1954 due to increasing competition from television. Rechristened the
Coconut Grove Playhouse, the facility reopened as a live theater in 1956.
Operating as a non-profit organization, it is now a nationally recognized
regional theater.
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