Lacey Street Theatre | |
Location: | 500 Second Avenue, Fairbanks, Alaska |
Coordinates: | 64.8439°N -147.7178°W |
Architect: | B. Marcus Priteca |
Builder: | C.W. Hufeisen |
Architecture: | Art Deco |
Added: | June 14, 1990 |
Area: | less than one acre |
Refnum: | 90000878 |
Designated Other1: | Alaska Heritage Resources Survey |
Designated Other1 Name: | Alaska Heritage Resources Survey |
Designated Other1 Color: |
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Designated Other1 Abbr: | AHRS |
Designated Other1 Number: | FAI-207 |
Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
The Lacey Street Theatre building, now hosting the Fairbanks Ice Museum, is an Art Deco architectural showpiece theatre located at 500 Second Avenue in Fairbanks, Alaska. It was designed by noted theatre designer B. Marcus Priteca, and built in 1939 by C.W. Hufeisen for Austin E. "Cap" Lathrop, one of a chain of movie theaters built by Lathrop across Alaska, and one of only two in Fairbanks into the 1960s.[1] It opened on January 25, 1940. It closed in December 1980, and was repurposed to house the museum in 1992.[2]
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
The actual museum, devoted to the display of ice sculpture, offers a daily multimedia presentations, demonstrations of ice carving, and tours of its sculpture collection.