Fox Fullerton Theatre, Italian Renaissance theater in Fullerton, United States.
The Fox Fullerton Theatre is an Italian Renaissance-style theater in Fullerton, California, designed to host both live performances and film screenings. It features a large main stage and an ornate interior with detailed decoration covering the walls and ceiling throughout the hall.
Built in 1924–25 by local businessman C. Stanley Chapman, son of Fullerton's first mayor Charles Chapman, the theatre was designed by Raymond M. Kennedy of Meyer & Holler and named Chapman's Alician Court Theatre after Chapman's wife Alice Ellen. Ownership changes brought the names Mission Court, Universal Mission Court, Fox Mission and finally Fox Theatre. It closed in 1987 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in October 2006.
The theatre's name changed with its owners: it opened as Chapman's Alician Court Theatre, named after C. Stanley Chapman's wife Alice Ellen, and was later called Mission Court, Universal Mission Court, Fox Mission and finally Fox Theatre. Its first manager was Chapman's father-in-law Harry Lee Wilber, who came from the nearby Rialto at 219 North Harbor Boulevard.
The theatre closed in 1987 and is still being restored by the Fullerton Historic Theatre Foundation, so it is not open for regular screenings. Since 2005 the city has shown films outdoors in the rear parking lot, projected onto the theatre's outer wall, to raise restoration funds. The courtyard now holds a coffeehouse and a German restaurant.
The tea room was run by Alice Ellen Chapman, wife of builder C. Stanley Chapman, not by the architect. The architect was Raymond M. Kennedy of Meyer & Holler, the firm behind Grauman's Egyptian Theatre and the TCL Chinese Theatre. The Fox remains that firm's major contribution to Orange County.
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