Orpheum Theatre, Brooklyn

The Orpheum Theatre. Antique photograph published in the book Views of Brooklyn, in 1905. The photo includes the following caption: This fine theatre building is located at the corner of Fulton Street and Rockwell Place. It is the leading house devoted to vaudeville in the city of Brooklyn. The building is a handsome structure without, and the auditorium within is acknowledged to be unsurpassed, for stage area and elegant appointments, by any of the great vaudeville theatres of the country. Publisher: L.H. Nelson Company, 1905. Source: Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy. NYPL Digital Collections.

Orpheum Theatre opened by Percy Williams in 1900. It was closed about the 1950s and demolished.