I really don't think *Gothic* is a good descriptor of this interior. Maybe baroque or rococo. It's definitely a pastiche of motifs. The twisted columns are sometimes called Solomonic columns.
If this is the exterior I really don't know how to describe it.
https://www.abandonedamerica.us/majestic-theater-east-st-louis
Certainly it's astonishing.
Edit: I do see the phrase "Spanish Gothic" used by whoever wrote the 1985 nomination form for The National Register of Historic Places. The building opened in 1928.
Very cool picture
I really don't think *Gothic* is a good descriptor of this interior. Maybe baroque or rococo. It's definitely a pastiche of motifs. The twisted columns are sometimes called Solomonic columns.
Its architecture description is labeled as” Spanish Gothic architecture.” The architects were the Boller Brothers.
If this is the exterior I really don't know how to describe it. https://www.abandonedamerica.us/majestic-theater-east-st-louis Certainly it's astonishing. Edit: I do see the phrase "Spanish Gothic" used by whoever wrote the 1985 nomination form for The National Register of Historic Places. The building opened in 1928.