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A designated St. Petersburg historic landmark, The Palladium Theater was built in 1925 as the First Church of Christ, Scientist. Cornerstone ceremonies were held on Thanksgiving Day in 1925. It is a Romanesque Revival building designed by Howard Lovewell Cheney, who also designed Washington, D.C.’s Reagan National Airport. Cheyney was inspired by Brunelleschi’s Foundling Hospital in Florence, Italy (1419) when he designed the building that was to become the Palladium Theater. The building was built by the George A. Fuller Construction Company, builder of three iconic New York City buildings — Flatiron Building, Dag Hammarskjöld Library at the United Nations, and the Lincoln Center in New York, as well as the National Cathedral and the Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C.

Since it was established by a group of arts philanthropists in 1998, The Palladium’s central mission has been to serve all of Tampa Bay as a theater that welcomes everyone ...