Ever Built
#1 - Radio City Music Hall – Manhattan, New York City, 5,940 seats, 1932 #2 - Roxy – Manhattan, New York City, 5,886, 1927-1960 #3 - Capitol - Manhattan, New York City, 5,230, 1919-1968 #4 - Hippodrome – Manhattan, New York City, 5,105, 1905-1939 #5 - Fox – Detroit, 5,045, 1928 #6 - Fox – St. Louis, 5,035, 1929 #7 - Fox – Atlanta, 4,950, 1929 #8 - Mastbaum – Philadelphia, 4,717, 1929-1958 #9 - Fox – San Francisco, 4,651, 1929-1963 #10 - Metropolitan – Boston, 4,407, 1925 (now the Wang Theatre) #11 - Stanley – Jersey City, 4,332, 1928 (now a church) #12 - Uptown – Chicago, 4,320, 1925 (closed since 1981) #13 - Warner – Atlantic City, New Jersey, 4,189, 1929 (only the façade remains) #14 - Fox – Brooklyn, New York City, 4,088, 1928-1971 #15 - Paramount – Brooklyn, New York City, 4,084, 1928 (closed 1962, now gymnasium for Long Island University)#16 - Michigan – Detroit, 4,050, 1926-1970, (partially destroyed, now used as parking structure) #17 - Minnesota – Minneapolis, 4,028, 1928-1958 #18 - Marbro – Chicago, 3,931, 1927-1964 #19 - Stanley – Pittsburgh, 3,886, 1928 (now Benedum Center for the Performing Arts) #20 - St. Louis – St. Louis, 3,881, 1925 (now Powell Symphony Hall)
|  Fox Theater, Detroit (Photo by Mike Russell) |