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State of California —The Resources Agency Primary # 8.A. - Page 241 <br /> DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI# <br /> CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial <br /> Page 5 of 13 *Resource Name or # (Assigned by recorder) 2215 Broadway <br /> *Recorded by: Richard Brandi *Date:January 4, 2010 ❑x Continuation ❑ Update <br /> entrance has a terrazzo floor with four stainless steel display cases on either side of the entrance and one on each side in the <br /> front of the theater. The theater doors are wood with round windows. There is no ticket booth. The marquee is triangular shaped <br /> and projects over the sidewalk with the name "Fox" and does not have a blade sign. The secondary facades on Middlefield Road <br /> and Hamilton Street continue in the Gothic style with a variety of plate glass windows and personal doors and swing in transom <br /> windows. <br /> Modifications <br /> The theater complex ground floor exterior has been modified to accommodate retail stores and businesses. The theater itself, <br /> originally called the "Sequoia," had a rectangular marquee and blade sign when built in 1928. The extant marquee was installed <br /> sometime before 1944 and it retained the name and its blade sign until 1950. After the ceiling over the balcony collapsed in June <br /> 1950, the theater entrance and interior were significantly altered and modernized in the so- called "Skouras style" by Carl G. <br /> Moeller. At that time the original "atmospheric" interior featuring a scene from a Spanish village was replaced with exaggerated <br /> floral motifs across the walls and lighting fixtures were replaced. New seats were installed and other minor changes were made. <br /> Externally, the blade sign was removed, the name changed to Fox, and entrance was modernized with the stainless steel display <br /> cases now extant. At that time, the doors were changed to a large glazed panel with stainless steel frames and the box office was <br /> also modernized. It is not known when the box office was removed. A photo dated 1996 (although it appears to have been taken <br /> earlier, perhaps in the 1970s judging by the automobiles) shows much of the primary facade shorn of its Gothic's tracery . The <br /> extant theater has tracery that resembles that seen on historic photos. <br /> SEQUOIA THEATRE BUILDING. REDWOOD CITY. CALIFORNI--' <br /> • <br /> p l Q <br /> I11IFf fib +T�' ! ! _.. __. lc a� i' l <br /> IN • ,WP ...a.•.Y <br /> Figure 5. Sequoia Theater as completed, undated. Source: Redwood City Public Library. <br /> ' The National Register Nomination form for the Fox Theater, states that the marquee was changed about 1935. Kent L. Seavey, <br /> "New Sequoia Theater Building," National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, April 1, 1993. <br /> DPR 523L (1195) *Required information <br />