Golden Gate Theater is a California Churrigueresque-style movie palace built in 1927 on Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles, California. In 1982, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The theater closed in 1986; the retail building built around it was damaged in the 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake and demolished in 1992. The remaining theater building was left vacant for more than 20 years as preservationists fought with owners and developers over the future of the building. It was finally converted into a drugstore and reopened in 2012.
Golden Gate Theater, 2008
Golden Gate Theater in 1980 with the Vega Building intact
Churrigueresque, also but less commonly "Ultra Baroque", refers to a Spanish Baroque style of elaborate sculptural architectural ornament which emerged as a manner of stucco decoration in Spain in the late 17th century and was used until about 1750, marked by extreme, expressive and florid decorative detailing, normally found above the entrance on the main façade of a building.
Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Churrigueresque Obradoiro façade
Basilica and Convent of Nuestra Señora de la Merced, Lima
The Santa Prisca temple, in Taxco, Mexico.
The California Quadrangle, at Balboa Park, San Diego, California. Churrigueresque Revival, inspired in the colonial Churrigueresque of the Americas.
