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Fox Theatre

660 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, GA

The Fox was designed as a Shriners' temple. When the $2.75 million project ran over budget, the Shriners leased the auditorium to movie mogul William Fox.

📅 1929–present🏛️ TheaterStill here
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The story

The building was planned as the Yaarab Shrine Temple, headquarters for a 5,000-member Shriners organization, which explains its Moorish design. Principal architect Olivier Vinour of Marye, Alger and Vinour designed it. When costs ran past the Shriners' budget, they leased the 4,665-seat auditorium to William Fox, and the theater opened on December 25, 1929, two months after the stock market crash.

In 1974 Southern Bell offered to buy the theater and tear it down. Public outcry and a big campaign to save it followed, and in 1976 the Fox was named a National Historic Landmark.

Everything that was here

Did you know?

Its four-manual, 42-rank pipe organ is nicknamed "Mighty Mo."
Southern Bell planned to demolish it in 1974.
Atlanta's 1939 "Gone with the Wind" premiere was at Loew's Grand, not the Fox.

Connected places

Loew's Grand Theatre

Atlanta, GA
Same address

Margaret Mitchell House

Atlanta, GA
Same address, different era

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Nearby history

Georgian Terrace Hotel

659 Peachtree Street NE · 116 m away
When "Gone with the Wind" premiered in 1939, the film's stars and director stayed here, except for Vivien Leigh and Laur

The Varsity

61 North Avenue NW · 360 m away
Frank Gordy opened it in 1928 as "The Yellow Jacket," and the North Avenue location grew into the largest drive-in fast-

Omni Coliseum

100 Techwood Drive NW · 603 m away

Margaret Mitchell House

979 Crescent Avenue NE · 981 m away

Terminal Station

100 Spring Street SW · 1.1 km away

Loew's Grand Theatre

157 Peachtree Street NE · 1.2 km away

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Sourceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Theatre_(Atlanta)