Oct 262010
Formerly located at 71 Clinton Avenue, the RKO Palace in Rochester opened Christmas 1928. Designed by the Chicago architectural firm of Graven and Mayger in the Georgian style, it was adorned with elaborate plasterwork, velvet curtains, chandeliers and gilded metalwork. It was home to the Wurlitzer 4/23 (opus 1951) theatre organ which was rescued by the Rochester Theater Organ Society and is now housed at the Auditorium Theater.
It was viewed as the most beautiful theater in our city, but in 1965 it was demolished in the name of “urban renewal”, and since then the location has been used as a parking lot.
