A two-story theater of patterned brown brick, its parapet stepped and crenellated between brick piers capped with stone urn finials. The center bay carries a triple arcade of round-arched second-story windows with stone trim, and diamond-and-cross brick insets pattern the flanking bays. A projecting marquee lettered "KINGSLAND" spans the recessed entrance below, flanked by shopfronts — a store and a barbershop to one side. Decorative brick pilasters and corbeled banding run the width of the front.
The Kingsland Theatre opened on October 22, 1924 at 6457 Gravois Avenue in Princeton Heights, designed by the firm Wedemeyer & Nelson and built for the Freund Brothers chain. It seated about 900 and ran as a neighborhood movie house for some three decades, passing to Arthur Enterprises around 1954. From 1964 to 1984 the building served as a gospel-revival hall under Herschel Lester, then reopened for films in 1984 under Herman Carnell, who added a second screen in the former balcony. The Kingsland closed and was demolished in 1997.
