Playmakers Theatre

Infobox_nrhp | name =Playmakers Theatre
nrhp_type = nhl


caption = Historic Playmakers Theatre, a National Historic Landmark and former home to the Carolina Playmakers theater group
location= Cameron Ave., Chapel Hill, North Carolina
lat_degrees = 35
lat_minutes = 54
lat_seconds = 24
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 79
long_minutes = 3
long_seconds = 2
long_direction = W
locmapin = North Carolina
area =
built =1850
architect= Davis,A.J.; Town & Davis
architecture= Greek Revival
designated= November 7, 1973cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1129&ResourceType=Building
title=Playmakers Theatre |accessdate=2008-06-19|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = June 24, 1971cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = State
refnum=71000605

Playmakers Theatre, also known as Smith Hall, is a Greek Revival temple built in 1850, that was originally designed by New York architect Alexander Jackson Davis as Smith Hall, a combined library and ballroom.cite web | url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/ | title=National Register Information System | accessdate=2008-03-08 | work=National Register of Historic Places | publisher=National Park Service] After also being used as a laboratory, bath house, and law school, it became a theater in 1923. The Theatre is the perpetual home of the Carolina Playmakers, although as their successor, the Playmakers Repertory Company uses Paul Green Theatre as their primary venue. [cite web | url=http://www.carolinaperformingarts.org/campusarts/venues.aspx
title=Historic Playmakers Theatre | accessdate=2008-03-08 | work=Campus Venues | publisher=Carolina Performing Arts] [cite web | url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1129&ResourceType=Building | title=Playmakers Theatre | accessdate=2008-03-08 | work=National Historic Landmarks Program| publisher=National Park Service] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

It was further declared a National Historic Landmark in 1973.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/71000605.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: ____] |32 KB|date=__, 19___ |author=___nps website down fill this out later____ |publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/71000605.pdf "Accompanying ___ photos, exterior and interior, from 19__"] |32 KB]

Note: A National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination document should be available upon request from the National Park Service for this site, but it appears not to be available on-line from the [http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreghome.do?searchtype=natreghome NPS Focus search site] .]

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* [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.nc0 __: __ photos, __drawings, __data pages and supplemental material] , at Historic American Building Survey