www.archpaper.com: The Crump Theatre sits in a state of suspended animation. Its weathered jade green and cream facade gleams over 3rd Street, in downtown Columbus, Indiana, where “CRUMP” blazes vertically in bright yellow letters. The marquee, trimmed in bulbs, evokes a bygone era of vaudeville and golden-age cinema.
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I feel that I follow a great deal of theaters that are relatively run down and forgotten about despite their beauty, and that is something that I really enjoy. Not just for the aesthetics of these theaters, but also for the communities that surround them. For example in this article, The Crump Theatre is taking place as a larger community initiative that is surrounded not only by the crump but the surrounding streets of columbus ohio. Also known as Project Encore, It highlights the historic impact of the theater and the light that it brings to the community even with its large neon sign alone. It showcases the sheer range of the theater, and all of the different kinds of shows that have come through in the years of this shows extensive history. Looking towards the future, this theater will play a role in the larger renovation project that is Coloumbus Downtown 2030.
There are so many old and worn-down theater spaces out there from the golden ages of movie theaters and all of that, and it’s really unfortunate that so many of them are left empty and unused and left to decay away. Not only are these just cool spaces in great locations to add to the general cultural environment in a given city’s downtown area, but they’re also just pieces of history worth preserving. I am definitely glad that cities are putting in effort to revamp their theaters and cultural spaces, and the Crump theater in particular looks like a really cool building, worthwhile of being refreshed. I actually really like the whole art deco vibe that the space has going on with all of the architecture on the exterior, and I really hope that it all gets cleaned up and refurbished, but not changed. I was trying to get some information about any changes to design that might happen from the article, but there was not any.
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