Carolina Theatre (Lumberton, North Carolina)

For similarly named institutions, see Carolina Theatre (disambiguation).

Carolina Theatre
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district Contributing property
Carolina Civic Center, December 2014
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Location	319 N. Chestnut St., Lumberton, North Carolina
Coordinates	34°37′9″N 79°0′30″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1927 (1927)-1928
Built by	Underwood, U.A., Construction Co.
Architect	Dixon, S.S.
Architectural style	Italian Renaissance
NRHP reference No.	81000426[1]
Added to NRHP	July 9, 1981

Carolina Theatre, also known as the Carolina Civic Center, is a historic movie theater located at Lumberton, Robeson County, North Carolina. It was built in 1927–1928, and is a three-story, Italian Renaissance style brick and terra cotta building. The theatre closed in 1975[2] amid a general exodus of businesses from downtown Lumberton. Plans were made to demolish it and build a parking lot, but community activists lobbied to have the building spared. It was reopened as the Carolina Civic Center in 1985 and underwent renovations in 2008.[3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.[1] It is located in the Lumberton Commercial Historic District at 319 North Chestnut Street.

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Davyd Foard Hood and Edward F. Turberg (December 1980). "Carolina Theatre" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
3. Nagem, Sarah (November 29, 2022). "Downtown Lumberton envisions a big transformation, starting with Carolina Civic Center". Border Belt Independent. Retrieved December 2, 2022.

External links

Media related to Carolina Civic Center (Lumberton, North Carolina) at Wikimedia Commons

• Carolina Civic Center website