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Updating to reflect current owner. Perhaps I will come back to add more detail later. -Andrew Myers Tech Director for Harvest Outreach INC
{{Infobox Building
|image=RexTheaterRexTheatre2008.jpg
|caption=The Rex Theatre on Palafox
|name=Rex Theatre
|client=
|engineer=
|owner=[[Tim HoganHarvest Outreach INC]]
|construction_start_date=
|completion_date=1930 (?)[[1922]]|renovations=[[1937]], 2001[[1981]], [[1984]], [[1997]],[[2014]]
|date_demolished=
|cost=$95,000 (1984)<br/>$25,000 (1997)<br/>$425,000 (2004)
|structural_system=
|style=Art Deco
|size=40'x150'<br/>three stories<br/>650 525 seats|mapcode=<googlemap lat="30.413752" lon="-87.215481" type="map" zoom="17" width="300" height="150">
30.413641, -87.215258, Rex Theatre
</googlemap>
}}
The '''Rex Theatre''' is a historic building at 18 North [[Palafox Street]] in [[downtown Pensacola]]. Known for its distinctive Art Deco façade, it was a second-run movie theater from [[1937]] to [[1977]], but has sat largely unused in the subsequent years, despite several attempts at restoration.
==History==The building was constructed in [[Rex Theatre1922]] (often called simply <ref name="historicface">"Renovated Rex keeps historic face."'''the Rex'Pensacola News Journal''") was opened in [[1930]]{{date uncertain}} , September 10, 1998.</ref> as the Rhodes Futch Collins Furniture Company. The company later changed its name to Rhodes-Collins, which can still be seen in faded lettering on the side of the building, and again to simply [[Rhodes Furniture]]. Around [[1937]],{{date uncertain}} when the furniture company moved to a new, larger building nearby (now known as the [[Rhodes Building]]), the old building was converted to a 650-seat movie theater: the Rex.
==Other images==
*Retired USN LCDR [[Joseph Hill]] died in the theater on [[March 3]], [[1943]].<ref>http://www.rootsweb.com/~flescamb/F-Psurname_Hh.htm</ref>
==External links& references=={{refbegin}}
*[http://www.edwardpeyton.com/rexb.html Before] and [http://www.edwardpeyton.com/rexa.html after] photos of the MacNeil renovation
*[http://www.agilitynut.com/theatres/fl.html Roadside Architecture]
*[http://www.escpa.org/Detail_a.aspx?s=000S009007004055 Escambia County Property Appraiser parcel detail]
{{refend}}
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[[Category:Historic theaters]]
[[Category:Defunct theaters]]
[[Category:Palafox Street buildings]]
[[Category:Landmarks]]