The story
G. Albert Lansburgh's Orpheum opened in 1921, joined the National Register in 1982, became the Louisiana Philharmonic's home, flooded in 2005 and reopened in August 2015 after a $13 million restoration.
Everything that was here
- 1921–present · still open
Orpheum TheaterHistoric Theatre
A 1921 vaudeville house brought back from Katrina.
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Connected places
Saenger Theatre
New Orleans, LA
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Loew's State / State Palace Theatre
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Michigan Central Station
Detroit, MI
restoration
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Nearby history
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130 Roosevelt Way · 163 m away
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123 Baronne Street · 163 m away
McCrory's (CORE Four Site)
1005 Canal Street · 235 m away
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Maison Blanche
901 Canal Street · 245 m away
Home of Mr. Bingle and radio station WSMB.
F.W. Woolworth's (Sit-In Site)
1031 Canal Street · 247 m away
S.H. Kress
923 Canal Street · 254 m away
The 1913 Canal Street Kress store is now part of the Ritz-Carlton hotel footprint, with its front facade kept and the in
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