Keywords: Paramount Oakland 571433cu.jpg US-CHL 884 73000395 ;TITLE Paramount Theatre 2025 Broadway Oakland Alameda County CA ;CALL NUMBER HABS CAL 1-OAK 9- ;REPRODUCTION NUMBER See Call Number ;MEDIUM Color Transparency ;DATE Documentation compiled after 1933 ;CREATOR Historic American Buildings Survey creator ;RELATED NAME S Miller J R Pflueger T L Bernardi Theodore Duncan Charles Stafford Fitzgerald Gerald Goodman Michael A ;NOTE Survey number HABS CA-1976 Building/structure dates 1930 initial construction Building/structure dates 1973 subsequent work National Register Number 73000395 Significance The Paramount Theatre is one of the finest remaining examples of Art Deco design in the United States It was one of the first Depression-era buildings to incorporate and integrate the work of numerous creative artists into its architecture and is particularly note-worthy for its successful orchestration of the various artistic disciplines into an original and harmonious whole The theatre was painstakingly restored in 1973 and was entered in the National Register of Historic Places on August 14th of that year On May 5 1977 the Paramount Theatre was declared a National Historic Landmark ;SUBJECTS CALIFORNIA--Alameda County--Oakland ;COLLECTION Historic American Buildings Survey Library of Congress ;REPOSITORY Library of Congress Prints and Photograph Division Washington D C 20540 USA ;DIGID http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/hhh ca0015 ;CONTENTS Photograph caption s 4 Jack E Boucher Photographer 1975 VIEW FROM NORTHEAST ;CONTROL CA0015 HABS loc-image hhh ca0015 Paramount Theater Oakland 1975 in California Jack Boucher Historic American Buildings Survey of California |