Tampa Theater and Office Building, 1925. Zylastra, Sape A., photographer : , Eberson, John , architect University of South Florida -- Tampa Campus Library still image Color photographs Tampa, Fla. : University of South Florida, Tampa Library 1925 eng Between the first and top stories, the building has a simple fenestration in a central bay four windows wide and slightly projecting corner bays which are continued as towers above a frieze-like string course. Above the frieze there is a wealth of decoration: balconies, spandrels, mullions, window surrounds, and cornices in cast stone and terra-cotta. Eberson invented the so-called atmospheric theater which., aside from lavish interior decorations , had a make-believe open-air auditorium: the plaster ceiling hung from metal trusses has holes with lights behind (the starry sky) and is surrounded by tiled roof edges and "exterior" walls with blind windows and balconies to give the audience the sense of being in a Mediterranean piazza. [SAZ]; detail, southwest tower Between the first and top stories, the building has a simple fenestration in a central bay four windows wide and slightly projecting corner bays which are continued as towers above a frieze-like string course. Above the frieze there is a wealth of decoration: balconies, spandrels, mullions, window surrounds, and cornices in cast stone and terra-cotta. Eberson invented the so-called atmospheric theater which., aside from lavish interior decorations , had a make-believe open-air auditorium: the plaster ceiling hung from metal trusses has holes with lights behind (the starry sky) and is surrounded by tiled roof edges and "exterior" walls with blind windows and balconies to give the audience the sense of being in a Mediterranean piazza. [SAZ]; detail, southwest tower Tampa Theater (711 Franklin Street, Tampa, Fla.) -- Photographs Mediterranean Motion picture theaters -- Florida -- Tampa -- Photographs Sape A. Zylstra Architectural Slides Collection
Tampa Theater and Office Building, 1925.
Zylastra, Sape A., photographer : , Eberson, John , architect
University of South Florida -- Tampa Campus Library
still image
Color photographs
Tampa, Fla. : University of South Florida, Tampa Library
1925
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Between the first and top stories, the building has a simple fenestration in a central bay four windows wide and slightly projecting corner bays which are continued as towers above a frieze-like string course. Above the frieze there is a wealth of decoration: balconies, spandrels, mullions, window surrounds, and cornices in cast stone and terra-cotta. Eberson invented the so-called atmospheric theater which., aside from lavish interior decorations , had a make-believe open-air auditorium: the plaster ceiling hung from metal trusses has holes with lights behind (the starry sky) and is surrounded by tiled roof edges and "exterior" walls with blind windows and balconies to give the audience the sense of being in a Mediterranean piazza. [SAZ]; detail, southwest tower
Between the first and top stories, the building has a simple fenestration in a central bay four windows wide and slightly projecting corner bays which are continued as towers above a frieze-like string course. Above the frieze there is a wealth of decoration: balconies, spandrels, mullions, window surrounds, and cornices in cast stone and terra-cotta. Eberson invented the so-called atmospheric theater which., aside from lavish interior decorations , had a make-believe open-air auditorium: the plaster ceiling hung from metal trusses has holes with lights behind (the starry sky) and is surrounded by tiled roof edges and "exterior" walls with blind windows and balconies to give the audience the sense of being in a Mediterranean piazza. [SAZ]; detail, southwest tower
Tampa Theater (711 Franklin Street, Tampa, Fla.) -- Photographs
Mediterranean
Motion picture theaters -- Florida -- Tampa -- Photographs
Sape A. Zylstra Architectural Slides Collection