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The '''United Palace''' is a former theatre now used as a church and live music venue, located at 4140 [[Broadway (Manhattan)|Broadway]] between [[175th Street (Manhattan)|West 175th]] and [[176th Street (Manhattan)|176th]] Streets in the [[Washington Heights, Manhattan|Washington Heights]] neighborhood of [[Manhattan]]. [[New York City]]. It was built and opened in 1930 as the '''[[Loews Theatres|Loew's]] 175th Street Theatre''', a [[movie palace]], and was designed by [[Thomas W. Lamb]]<ref name = "xanadus">.{{Citation| last = Dunlap| first =David W.| author-link =| title =Xanadus Rise to a Higher Calling| newspaper =[[New York Times]]| pages =| date =April 13, 2001| url =http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E2DE1531F930A25757C0A9679C8B63 }}</ref><ref name="rite" /> in an eclectic mix of styles.<ref name=fromatoz>{{cite fromatoz}}, p.286</ref> It originally presented films and [[vaudeville]], but its last commercial film presentation was in 1968-69, and the theatre was bought for over half a million dollars in 1969 by the [[evangelism|evangelist]] Rev. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II, better known as [[Reverend Ike]], to be the headquarters for his United Church Science of Living Institute. The historic theatre, renamed the Palace Cathedral and colloquially called "Reverend Ike's Prayer Tower",<ref name=organ /> was restored by the church.<ref>[[Christopher Lehmann-Haupt|Lehman-Haupt, Christopher]]. (July 30, 2009) [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/nyregion/30ike.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=rev%20ike&st=cse "Reverend Ike, Who Preached Riches, Dies at 74"] ''[[New York Times]]''</ref>
The '''United Palace''' is a former theatre now used as a church and live music venue, located at 4140 [[Broadway (Manhattan)|Broadway]] between [[175th Street (Manhattan)|West 175th]] and [[176th Street (Manhattan)|176th]] Streets in the [[Washington Heights, Manhattan|Washington Heights]] neighborhood of [[Manhattan]]. [[New York City]]. It was built and opened in 1930 as the '''[[Loews Theatres|Loew's]] 175th Street Theatre''', a [[movie palace]], and was designed by [[Thomas W. Lamb]] and Harold Rambausch<ref name=adams>{{cite news|last1=Adams|first1=Nathaniel|title=Across the New York Area, Restoring ‘Wonder Theater’ Movie Palaces to Glory|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/18/nyregion/across-the-new-york-area-restoring-wonder-theater-movie-palaces-to-glory.html|website=The New York Times|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> <ref name = "xanadus">.{{Citation| last = Dunlap| first =David W.| author-link =| title =Xanadus Rise to a Higher Calling| newspaper =[[New York Times]]| pages =| date =April 13, 2001| url =http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E2DE1531F930A25757C0A9679C8B63 }}</ref><ref name="rite" /> in an eclectic mix of styles.<ref name=fromatoz>{{cite fromatoz}}, p.286</ref> It originally presented films and [[vaudeville]], but its last commercial film presentation was in 1968-69. The theatre was bought for over half a million dollars in 1969 by the [[evangelism|televangelist]] Rev. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II, better known as [[Reverend Ike]], to be the headquarters for his United Church Science of Living Institute. The historic theatre, renamed the Palace Cathedral and colloquially called "Reverend Ike's Prayer Tower",<ref name=organ /> was restored by the church.<ref>[[Christopher Lehmann-Haupt|Lehman-Haupt, Christopher]]. (July 30, 2009) [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/nyregion/30ike.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=rev%20ike&st=cse "Reverend Ike, Who Preached Riches, Dies at 74"] ''[[New York Times]]''</ref>


==Architecture==
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==History and description==
[[File:United Palace proscenium and stage.jpg|thumb|left|300px|The [[proscenium]] and stage of the United Palace; the stage is set up for an orchestral performance]]
[[File:United Palace proscenium and stage.jpg|thumb|left|300px|The [[proscenium]] and stage of the United Palace; the stage is set up for an orchestral performance]]
[[Image:United Palace Balcony.jpg|thumb|left|300px|A look at the inside of what has been called a "delirious masterpiece"<ref name="xanadus" />]]
[[Image:United Palace Balcony.jpg|thumb|left|300px|A look at the inside of what has been called a "delirious masterpiece"<ref name="xanadus" />]]


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The architectural style of the [[terra-cotta]]-faced theatre has been described as "Byzantine-Romanesque-Indo-Hindu-Sino-Moorish-Persian-Eclectic-Rococo-Deco" by David W. Dunlap of the ''[[New York Times]]'',<ref name="dwyer" /> who wrote later that Lamb borrowed from "the [[Alhambra]] in Spain, the [[Kailasa]] rock-cut shrine in India, and the [[Wat Phra Keo]] temple in Thailand, adding [[Buddha]]s, [[bodhisattva]]s, elephants, and honeycomb stonework in an Islamic pattern known as ''[[muqarnas]].''"<ref name=fromatoz /> The ''[[AIA Guide to New York City]]'' calls it "Cambodian neo-Classical" and invites a comparison to Lamb's Loew's Pitkin Theatre in [[Brownsville, Brooklyn]],<ref name = "AIA">{{cite aia5}}, p.568</ref> while ''[[The New York Times]]'' reporter Nathaniel Adams called it simply a "kitchen-sink masterpiece." Lamb himself wrote that "Exotic ornaments, colors and scenes are particularly effective in creating an atmosphere in which the mind is free to frolic and becomes receptive to entertainment."<ref name="xanadus" />

The interior of the building features a "palatial" staircase.<ref name=organ /> and reflects the western obsession with exotic lands and cultures that was fashionable in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The interior is decorated with filigreed walls and ceilings, illuminated with directional lighting from within and behind the walls. The original elegance has been enhanced by the addition of authentic Louis XV and XVI furnishings and a collection of other works of art.<ref>{{cite web|title=United Palace Theatre History|url=http://unitedpalace.org/history|website=United Palace Theatre|publisher=United Palace Theatre}}</ref>

The theatre still looks very much as it did when it first opened; the only change that Rev. Ike made was adding a cuppola or prayer tower on the building's northeast corner, at Wardsworth Avenue and West 176th Street, in the 1970s, topped by a "Miracle Star of Faith," visible from the [[George Washington Bridge]] and [[New Jersey]].

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==History==
The Loews 175th Street Theatre was built as one of the [[Loew's Wonder Theatres]], their extravagant and spacious flagships in the New York City area, which included [[Loew's Jersey Theatre]] in [[Jersey City]] (opened 1929, now a classic cinema and performing arts center); the [[Kings Theatre (Brooklyn)|Loew's Kings Theatre]] in [[Brooklyn]] (1929, under restoration as a performing arts center<ref>{{cite news|last1=Alberts|first1=Hana R.|title=See the Amazing Restoration of Flatbush's 1920s Movie Palace|url=http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/05/28/see_the_amazing_restoration_of_flatbushs_1920s_movie_palace.php|accessdate=20 June 2014|work=Curbed NYC|publisher=Vox Media Inc.|date=28 May 2014}}</ref>); the [[Paradise Theater (Bronx)|Loew's Paradise Theatre]], [[The Bronx]] (1929, now a church); and Loew's Valencia Theatre in [[Queens]] (1929, now a church<ref name="krefft_roe_r">{{Cite web|author=Krefft, Jason R. Bryan; and Roe, Ken|url=http://cinematreasures.org/theater/903/|title=Loew's Valencia Theatre|accessdate=2010-09-01|website=''Cinema Treasures''}}</ref>)
The Loews 175th Street Theatre was built as one of the [[Loew's Wonder Theatres]], their extravagant and spacious flagships in the New York City area, which included [[Loew's Jersey Theatre]] in [[Jersey City]] (opened 1929, now a classic cinema and performing arts center); the [[Kings Theatre (Brooklyn)|Loew's Kings Theatre]] in [[Brooklyn]] (1929, under restoration as a performing arts center<ref>{{cite news|last1=Alberts|first1=Hana R.|title=See the Amazing Restoration of Flatbush's 1920s Movie Palace|url=http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/05/28/see_the_amazing_restoration_of_flatbushs_1920s_movie_palace.php|accessdate=20 June 2014|work=Curbed NYC|publisher=Vox Media Inc.|date=28 May 2014}}</ref>); the [[Paradise Theater (Bronx)|Loew's Paradise Theatre]], [[The Bronx]] (1929, now a church); and Loew's Valencia Theatre in [[Queens]] (1929, now a church<ref name="krefft_roe_r">{{Cite web|author=Krefft, Jason R. Bryan; and Roe, Ken|url=http://cinematreasures.org/theater/903/|title=Loew's Valencia Theatre|accessdate=2010-09-01|website=''Cinema Treasures''}}</ref>)


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The 175th Street Theatre seated 3,661 people and opened on February 22, 1930. The first program included the [[MGM]] film ''[[Their Own Desire]]''. starring [[Norma Shearer]], and ''Pearls'', a live musical stage revue starring vaudevillians Shaw and Lee (Al Shaw and Sam Lee). Loew's closed the theatre 39 years later in March 1969 with a showing of ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]''.<ref name=organ />
The 175th Street Theatre seated 3,661 people and opened on February 22, 1930. The first program included the [[MGM]] film ''[[Their Own Desire]]''. starring [[Norma Shearer]], and ''Pearls'', a live musical stage revue starring vaudevillians Shaw and Lee (Al Shaw and Sam Lee). Loew's closed the theatre 39 years later in March 1969 with a showing of ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]''.<ref name=organ />


===Church===
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The architectural style of the [[terra-cotta]]-faced theatre has been described as "Byzantine-Romanesque-Indo-Hindu-Sino-Moorish-Persian-Eclectic-Rococo-Deco" by David W. Dunlap of the ''[[New York Times]]'',<ref name="dwyer" /> who wrote later that Lamb borrowed from "the [[Alhambra]] in Spain, the [[Kailasa]] rock-cut shrine in India, and the [[Wat Phra Keo]] temple in Thailand, adding [[Buddha]]s, [[bodhisattva]]s, elephants, and honeycomb stonework in an Islamic pattern known as ''[[muqarnas]].''"<ref name=fromatoz /> The ''[[AIA Guide to New York City]]'' calls it "Cambodian neo-Classical" and invites a comparison to Lamb's Loew's Pitkin Theatre in [[Brownsville, Brooklyn]].<ref name = "AIA">{{cite aia5}}, p.568</ref> Lamb wrote that "Exotic ornaments, colors and scenes are particularly effective in creating an atmosphere in which the mind is free to frolic and becomes receptive to entertainment."<ref name="xanadus" /> The interior features a "palatial" staircase.<ref name=organ /> A [[cupola]] on the building's northeast corner, at Wadsworth Avenue and West 176th Street, is topped by a "Miracle Star of Faith," visible from the [[George Washington Bridge]].
In 1969, as the era of grand movie palaces was coming to an end, the theatre was purchased by [[televangelist]] Rev. Ike, who renamed the building the [[United Palace]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Diamond|first1=Bruce|title=United Palace Cathedral may see new life as community arts center|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/united-palace-cathedral-new-life-community-arts-center-article-1.1076105|newspaper=[[New York Daily News]]}}</ref> As a successful "prosperity preacher," Rev. Ike was able to restore the theatre as his congregation grew through syndicated radio and television shows.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Everlasting Message Of Reverend Ike|url=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111388940|website=NPR.org|publisher=NPR.org}}</ref>

The church's congregation is now called '''The United Palace House of Inspiration (UPHI)''', and is an all-inclusive, [[non-denominational]] spritual community<ref>{{cite web|title=United Palace House of Inspiration|url=http://unitedpalace.org/uphi|website=UPHI|publisher=UPHI}}</ref> led by [[Xavier Eikerenkoetter]], the son of Reverend Ike, who took over when his father died.<ref>{{cite web|last1=McLellan|first1=Dennis|title=Reverend Ike dies at 74; minister preached gospel of prosperity|url=http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-reverend-ike31-2009jul31-story.html|website=Los Angeles Times|publisher=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> When Rev. Ike died, Xavier renamed it to UPHI. UPHI offers a [[Sunday service]] every week, community circles and classes, a neighborhood followship that includes a [[choir]] and dance ministry, outreach and youth programs and a [[volunteer]] ministry.


===Performance venue===
While the United Christian Evangelistic Association continues to own the theater, the recently inaugurated rock concerts presented there have been produced by Andy Feltz, formerly of the [[Beacon Theatre (New York City)|Beacon Theatre]].<ref name = "dwyer" /> Musical performers since 2007 include [[Vampire Weekend]], [[Eddie Vedder]], [[Neil Young]], [[Sonic Youth]], [[Bloc Party]], [[Bob Dylan]], [[Adele]], [[The Smashing Pumpkins]], [[Beck]], [[Sigur Rós]], [[Jackson Browne]], [[Alex Campos]], [[Björk]], [http://www.allmanbrothersband.com/ Allman Brothers Band],<ref name="rite">{{Citation| last = Atamian| first =Christopher| author-link =| title ="Rite of Spring" as Rite of Passage| newspaper =[[New York Times]]| pages =| date =November 11, 2007| url =http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/arts/11atam.html }}</ref> [[Iggy and the Stooges]],<ref name="rite" /> [[Modest Mouse]],<ref name="dwyer">{{Citation| last = Dwyer| first =Jim| author-link = Jim Dwyer (journalist)| title =With Indie Rock on 175th St., City’s Reinvention Rolls Uptown| newspaper =[[New York Times]]| pages =| date =May 2, 2007| url =http://select.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/nyregion/02about.html }}</ref> [[The Black Crowes]], [[Arcade Fire]] and [[Kraftwerk]].
A series of rock concerts presented at the UNited Palace were produced by Andy Feltz, formerly of the [[Beacon Theatre (New York City)|Beacon Theatre]].<ref name = "dwyer" /> Musical performers since 2007 include [[Vampire Weekend]], [[Eddie Vedder]], [[Neil Young]], [[Sonic Youth]], [[Bloc Party]], [[Bob Dylan]], [[Adele]], [[The Smashing Pumpkins]], [[Beck]], [[Sigur Rós]], [[Jackson Browne]], [[Alex Campos]], [[Björk]], [http://www.allmanbrothersband.com/ Allman Brothers Band],<ref name="rite">{{Citation| last = Atamian| first =Christopher| author-link =| title ="Rite of Spring" as Rite of Passage| newspaper =[[New York Times]]| pages =| date =November 11, 2007| url =http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/arts/11atam.html }}</ref> [[Iggy and the Stooges]],<ref name="rite" /> [[Modest Mouse]],<ref name="dwyer">{{Citation| last = Dwyer| first =Jim| author-link = Jim Dwyer (journalist)| title =With Indie Rock on 175th St., City’s Reinvention Rolls Uptown| newspaper =[[New York Times]]| pages =| date =May 2, 2007| url =http://select.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/nyregion/02about.html }}</ref> [[The Black Crowes]], [[Arcade Fire]] and [[Kraftwerk]].


In 2007, [[Sir Simon Rattle]] appeared at the theatre conducting the [[Berlin Philharmonic]] in [[Igor Stravinsky]]'s ballet ''[[The Rite of Spring]]'' danced by public school students and choreographed by [[Royston Maldoom]].<ref name="rite" /> The following year, a performance of [[Leonard Bernstein]]'s ''[[Mass (Bernstein)|Mass]]'' was given as part of the celebration of the 90th anniversary of that composer's birth.<ref name="tommasini">{{Citation| last = Tommasini| first =Anthony| author-link =| title =Bernstein Mass Project, Youthful Choristers Imparting New Life| newspaper =[[New York Times]]| pages =| date =October 26, 2008| url =http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/27/arts/music/27mass.html }}</ref> In addition, recitals, classes and lectures have also been presented at the theatre, and the TV show ''[[Smash (TV series)|Smash]]'' has used the theatre to film its fictional Broadway production ''Bombshell''.<ref>Kemp, Kris. [http://kriskemp.com/how-to-get-more-work-as-a-background-actor-extra-in-new-york-city/ "How to Get More Work as a Background Actor (Extra) in New York City"]</ref>
In 2007, [[Sir Simon Rattle]] appeared at the theatre conducting the [[Berlin Philharmonic]] in [[Igor Stravinsky]]'s ballet ''[[The Rite of Spring]]'' danced by public school students and choreographed by [[Royston Maldoom]].<ref name="rite" /> The following year, a performance of [[Leonard Bernstein]]'s ''[[Mass (Bernstein)|Mass]]'' was given as part of the celebration of the 90th anniversary of that composer's birth.<ref name="tommasini">{{Citation| last = Tommasini| first =Anthony| author-link =| title =Bernstein Mass Project, Youthful Choristers Imparting New Life| newspaper =[[New York Times]]| pages =| date =October 26, 2008| url =http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/27/arts/music/27mass.html }}</ref> In addition, recitals, classes and lectures have also been presented at the theatre, and the TV show ''[[Smash (TV series)|Smash]]'' has used the theatre to film its fictional Broadway production ''Bombshell''.<ref>Kemp, Kris. [http://kriskemp.com/how-to-get-more-work-as-a-background-actor-extra-in-new-york-city/ "How to Get More Work as a Background Actor (Extra) in New York City"]</ref>
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==External links==
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* [http://www.unitedpalace.org Official website]
* [http://www.unitedpalace.org United Palance website]
* [http://www.UPHI.org/ United Palace House of Inspiration website]
* [http://www.thirteen.org/thecityconcealed/2009/04/20/united-palace-theater/ Video profile of the United Palace Theater]
* [http://www.thirteen.org/thecityconcealed/2009/04/20/united-palace-theater/ Video profile of the United Palace Theater]
* [http://www.nochelatina.com/Venues/131177/New-York/United-Palace-Theatre United Place Theater], nocheLatina
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United Palace
Loew's 175th Street Theatre
(2014)
Map
Address4140 Broadway
between West 175th and West 176th Streets
Washington Heights, Manhattan
New York City
Coordinates40°50′47″N 73°56′17″W / 40.846412°N 73.938193°W / 40.846412; -73.938193
OwnerUnited Christian Evangelistic Association[1]
Capacity1930: 3,444[2] or 3,661;[3]
2007: 3,293[4]
Current usechurch; live music venue
Construction
Opened1930
ArchitectThomas W. Lamb
Website
http://www.unitedpalace.org

The United Palace is a former theatre now used as a church and live music venue, located at 4140 Broadway between West 175th and 176th Streets in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. New York City. It was built and opened in 1930 as the Loew's 175th Street Theatre, a movie palace, and was designed by Thomas W. Lamb and Harold Rambausch[5] [6][7] in an eclectic mix of styles.[8] It originally presented films and vaudeville, but its last commercial film presentation was in 1968-69. The theatre was bought for over half a million dollars in 1969 by the televangelist Rev. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II, better known as Reverend Ike, to be the headquarters for his United Church Science of Living Institute. The historic theatre, renamed the Palace Cathedral and colloquially called "Reverend Ike's Prayer Tower",[3] was restored by the church.[9]

Architecture

The proscenium and stage of the United Palace; the stage is set up for an orchestral performance
A look at the inside of what has been called a "delirious masterpiece"[6]

The architectural style of the terra-cotta-faced theatre has been described as "Byzantine-Romanesque-Indo-Hindu-Sino-Moorish-Persian-Eclectic-Rococo-Deco" by David W. Dunlap of the New York Times,[4] who wrote later that Lamb borrowed from "the Alhambra in Spain, the Kailasa rock-cut shrine in India, and the Wat Phra Keo temple in Thailand, adding Buddhas, bodhisattvas, elephants, and honeycomb stonework in an Islamic pattern known as muqarnas."[8] The AIA Guide to New York City calls it "Cambodian neo-Classical" and invites a comparison to Lamb's Loew's Pitkin Theatre in Brownsville, Brooklyn,[10] while The New York Times reporter Nathaniel Adams called it simply a "kitchen-sink masterpiece." Lamb himself wrote that "Exotic ornaments, colors and scenes are particularly effective in creating an atmosphere in which the mind is free to frolic and becomes receptive to entertainment."[6]

The interior of the building features a "palatial" staircase.[3] and reflects the western obsession with exotic lands and cultures that was fashionable in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The interior is decorated with filigreed walls and ceilings, illuminated with directional lighting from within and behind the walls. The original elegance has been enhanced by the addition of authentic Louis XV and XVI furnishings and a collection of other works of art.[11]

The theatre still looks very much as it did when it first opened; the only change that Rev. Ike made was adding a cuppola or prayer tower on the building's northeast corner, at Wardsworth Avenue and West 176th Street, in the 1970s, topped by a "Miracle Star of Faith," visible from the George Washington Bridge and New Jersey.

History

The Loews 175th Street Theatre was built as one of the Loew's Wonder Theatres, their extravagant and spacious flagships in the New York City area, which included Loew's Jersey Theatre in Jersey City (opened 1929, now a classic cinema and performing arts center); the Loew's Kings Theatre in Brooklyn (1929, under restoration as a performing arts center[12]); the Loew's Paradise Theatre, The Bronx (1929, now a church); and Loew's Valencia Theatre in Queens (1929, now a church[13])

All five theatres featured functionally identical "Wonder Morton" electro-pneumatic pipe organs manufactured by the Robert Morton Organ Company of Van Nuys, California, which had four manuals and 23 ranks. The organ in the United Palace was restored c.1970 after almost 25 years of disuse, and was utilized by the church in its services, but is no longer functioning due to water damage.[3]

The 175th Street Theatre seated 3,661 people and opened on February 22, 1930. The first program included the MGM film Their Own Desire. starring Norma Shearer, and Pearls, a live musical stage revue starring vaudevillians Shaw and Lee (Al Shaw and Sam Lee). Loew's closed the theatre 39 years later in March 1969 with a showing of 2001: A Space Odyssey.[3]

Church

In 1969, as the era of grand movie palaces was coming to an end, the theatre was purchased by televangelist Rev. Ike, who renamed the building the United Palace.[14] As a successful "prosperity preacher," Rev. Ike was able to restore the theatre as his congregation grew through syndicated radio and television shows.[15]

The church's congregation is now called The United Palace House of Inspiration (UPHI), and is an all-inclusive, non-denominational spritual community[16] led by Xavier Eikerenkoetter, the son of Reverend Ike, who took over when his father died.[17] When Rev. Ike died, Xavier renamed it to UPHI. UPHI offers a Sunday service every week, community circles and classes, a neighborhood followship that includes a choir and dance ministry, outreach and youth programs and a volunteer ministry.

Performance venue

A series of rock concerts presented at the UNited Palace were produced by Andy Feltz, formerly of the Beacon Theatre.[4] Musical performers since 2007 include Vampire Weekend, Eddie Vedder, Neil Young, Sonic Youth, Bloc Party, Bob Dylan, Adele, The Smashing Pumpkins, Beck, Sigur Rós, Jackson Browne, Alex Campos, Björk, Allman Brothers Band,[7] Iggy and the Stooges,[7] Modest Mouse,[4] The Black Crowes, Arcade Fire and Kraftwerk.

In 2007, Sir Simon Rattle appeared at the theatre conducting the Berlin Philharmonic in Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring danced by public school students and choreographed by Royston Maldoom.[7] The following year, a performance of Leonard Bernstein's Mass was given as part of the celebration of the 90th anniversary of that composer's birth.[18] In addition, recitals, classes and lectures have also been presented at the theatre, and the TV show Smash has used the theatre to film its fictional Broadway production Bombshell.[19]

In 2013 limited film screenings returned to the Palace. As of 2001, the projection booth still had three six-foot tall Simplex projectors with Peerless arclight housings.[6] In 2013 money was raised to install digital projection in the theatre. The first film presented in the new format was the 1941 Warner Bros classic Casablanca.[20]
  • Exterior
  • The corner of Broadway and West 175th Street
    The corner of Broadway and West 175th Street
  • The vertical sign
    The vertical sign
  • The building's dome at the corner of Wadsworth Avenue and West 176th Street, featuring the "Miracle Star of Faith"
    The building's dome at the corner of Wadsworth Avenue and West 176th Street, featuring the "Miracle Star of Faith"
  • Interior
  • The base of a column in the lobby
    The base of a column in the lobby
  • A column on the main staircase to the mezzanine
    A column on the main staircase to the mezzanine
  • The base of a column in the mezzanine
    The base of a column in the mezzanine
  • A detail from a mezzanine wall
    A detail from a mezzanine wall
The south wall of the lobby

References

Notes

  1. ^ "4140 Broadway, Manhattan" New York City Geographic Information Services map. Accessed: June 1, 2014
  2. ^ Moritz, Owen. "Loew's Legacy is Alive on Screens"] New York Daily News (May 2, 2004)
  3. ^ a b c d e "United Church: 'The Palace Cathedral'" in New York City Organ Project New York City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists
  4. ^ a b c d Dwyer, Jim (May 2, 2007), "With Indie Rock on 175th St., City's Reinvention Rolls Uptown", New York Times
  5. ^ Adams, Nathaniel. "Across the New York Area, Restoring 'Wonder Theater' Movie Palaces to Glory". The New York Times. {{cite news}}: More than one of |website= and |newspaper= specified (help)
  6. ^ a b c d .Dunlap, David W. (April 13, 2001), "Xanadus Rise to a Higher Calling", New York Times
  7. ^ a b c d Atamian, Christopher (November 11, 2007), ""Rite of Spring" as Rite of Passage", New York Times
  8. ^ a b Dunlap, David W. (2004). From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-12543-7., p.286
  9. ^ Lehman-Haupt, Christopher. (July 30, 2009) "Reverend Ike, Who Preached Riches, Dies at 74" New York Times
  10. ^ White, Norval; Willensky, Elliot; Leadon, Fran (2010). AIA Guide to New York City (5th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19538-386-7., p.568
  11. ^ "United Palace Theatre History". United Palace Theatre. United Palace Theatre.
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