A two-story neighborhood house of dark brick under a deep bracketed sheet-metal cornice, its upper windows segmental-arched with keystones over corbeled brickwork. A wide marquee lettered "UNION," crowned by a scrolled crest and edged in bulbs, projected over the recessed entrance, with a vertical blade sign above and poster cases and awnings at the sidewalk. The long brick flank of the auditorium extended back to the right.
The Union Theatre opened on October 29, 1910 at 1506 Union Boulevard, a neighborhood movie house designed by the firm Duggan & Huff and seating about 1,124. The Fanchon & Marco chain (Arthur Enterprises) took it over by the 1920s. It closed in May 1938 for a remodeling by Bruce F. Barnes — which gave it an Art Deco front of white marble and a reduced house of about 925 seats — and reopened in April 1939. The Union closed for good in October 1960, and the building was then converted into a church.
