Carver Theater

A three-story theater front faced in glazed white brick, framed by a bracketed cornice and a molded band of terra-cotta garland swags below the parapet. Two round oculus windows flank a central ornamental panel from which a scrolled vertical blade sign lettered "GLOBE THEATRE" projected; two tall rectangular windows sit below at the second story. At the sidewalk a metal marquee sheltered the entrance and flanking poster boards, hung with banners for the house's talking-picture programs.

The theater opened in June 1910 as the Palace, a 502-seat house at 1310 Franklin Avenue, on the stretch of Franklin later renamed Dr. Martin Luther King Drive. Ethel Waters played a week there beginning May 4, 1924. By the fall of 1931 it had become the Globe, a talking-picture house that also ran special vaudeville days; it opened its 1931 talkie season that October with bills including Aloha, Shipmates, and The Sunrise Trail. Bessie Smith and Her Gang appeared in person on August 4–6, 1932. The theater was renamed the Carver on February 19, 1944. It closed on October 9, 1955, and in March 1956 Monsanto Chemical, which had bought the building, demolished it to make way for an office building.