The United Artists Theatre, known more recently as the Los Angeles University Cathedral, is a former movie palace and Protestant church in downtown Los Angeles, California. It was designed by the architect C. Howard Crane of the firm Walker & Eisen for the United Artists corporation formed by Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford.
Construction was completed in 1927. The theater was the first of many constructed by United Artists and served as the first major preview house located in Los Angeles rather than in New York City. The building was the tallest privately owned structure in Los Angeles until 1956. Its style is Spanish Gothic, patterned after a cathedral in Segovia, Spain.
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