Tennessee Theatre/Burwell Building - Downtown Knoxville, Tennessee

The Tennessee Theater/Burwell Building is a building complex of three inter-related components under single ownership: the Tennessee Theater, a 1928 presentation of a "Moorish Movie Palace" style theater; the Burwell Building (originally built as the Knoxville Banking and Trust Company Building), a ten story plus mezzanine & basement Second Renaissance Revival office building; and two very small commercial structures sandwiched between a portion of the theater & office building. Located on what has been described for many years as the 100% corner of Downtown Knoxville, the Burwell Building/Tennessee Theater has been a landmark structure since the construction of each portion of the complex. The complex is significant architecturally both for the design of the theater and the office building. The office building, built primarily in 1907, was the tallest building in Downtown Knoxville at the time of its construction, and is both the only building built in Knoxville by the architectural firm of Richards, McCarty, and Bulford (of Columbus, Ohio) and also the only remaining building in this particular mode of Second Renaissance Revival in Knoxville. The theater, built in 1928, is the only movie palace ever built in Knoxville, and is one of only four remaining in the entire state of Tennessee. Designed by the firm of Graven and Mayger of Chicago, Illinois (who were originally with the premier movie palace architects Rapp and Rapp), the theater is also unusual for movie palace architecture due to the oval shape of the auditorium, resulting in a very shallow house for its size. Both the theater and office building were built by the George A. Fuller Construction Company of New York, NY.

On April 1, 1982, the Tennessee Theater/Burwell Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) for its architecture and history in Knoxville, Tennessee. All the information above (and a lot more) was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration and can be viewed here: npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail/afbb2593-bb92-4e8b-82f...

Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.

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Taken in: United States / Tennessee / Knoxville (show map)

Taken on: February 18, 2023

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Camera: Nikon D7200, f/3.8, 22mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D7200
Aperture:	f/3.8
Focal Length:	22mm
ISO:	200
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)
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