“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most
immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what
it is to be a human being.”
~ Oscar Wilde
~1854-1900
The State Theatre sparkles like a jewel in downtown Easton, Pennsylvania on
a chilly November evening on Northampton Street.
State Theatre, originally known as Neumeyers Vaudeville House and now the
State Theatre Center for the Arts, is an historic theatre. The building began to take its present form in 1910, when
modified from a bank building to a vaudeville house. The building was
extensively modified in 1926, to include a larger auditorium, balcony and lush
decorations. At that time it was renamed “The State.” The building is
asymmetrical with a cut stone Beaux-Arts style façade and large overhanging
marquee.
Beaux-Arts
Architecture is a very rich, lavish and heavily ornamented classical style
taught at L’Ecole des Beaux Arts
in Paris in the 19th century. The term “Beaux
Arts” is the approximate English equivalent of “Fine Arts.”
State Theatre was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
