Apply to join the Trail:

WV Historic Theatre Trail Application

Preservation Organizations:

Preservation Alliance of West Virginia
National Trust for Historic Preservation

State Agencies:

WV State Historic Preservation Office
West Virginia Commission on the Arts

Theatre Organizations:

Theatre Historical Society of America
League of Historic American Theatres
United Drive-in Theatre Owners Association
American Association of Community Theatre
Association of Performing Arts Presenters

Arts Organizations:

Arts Advocacy of West Virginia

Articles:

10 Steps for Restoring Historic Theaters (2013 – Julia Rocchi, National Trust for Historic Preservation, DC)
League of Historic American Theatres’ Rescue & Rehab Manual (2012 – League of Historic American Theatres, Bel Air, MD)
The Cycle: Planning for Success in the Arts (2011 – Michael M. Kaiser, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY, and Brett Egan, DeVos Institute of Arts Management at the Kennedy Center, New York, NY)

Books:

Condee, William Faricy. Coal and Culture: Opera Houses in Appalachia. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2005.

Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn. Hollywood in the Neighborhood: Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.

Gomery, Douglas. Shared Pleasures: A History Of Movie Presentation in the United States. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.

Hall, Ben M. The Best Remaining Seats: The Golden Age of the Movie Palace. Rev. ed. Da Capo: Da Capo, 1988.

Hark, Ina Rae. Exhibition, the Film Reader. New York: Routledge, 2001.

Maltby, Richard, Melvyn Stokes, and Robert C. Allen, eds. Going to the Movies: Hollywood and the Social Experience of the Cinema. Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press, 2008.

Margolies, John, and Emily Gwathmey. Ticket to Paradise: American Movie Theaters and How We Had Fun. Boston: Bulfinch Press, 1991.

McKeon, Elizabeth, and Linda Everett. Cinema Under the Stars: America’s Love Affair with the Drive-in Movie Theater. Nashville: Cumberland House, 1998.

Melnick, Ross, and Andreas Fuchs. Cinema Treasures: A New Look at Classic Movie Theaters. St. Paul, MN: MBI, 2004.

Morrison, Craig. Theaters: Library of Congress Visual Sourcebook. New York: W.W. Norton, 2005.

Naylor, David. American Picture Palaces: The Architecture of Fantasy. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981.

Naylor, David. Great American Movie Theaters. Great American Places. Washington, DC: Preservation Press, 1987.

Pildas, Ave, and Lucinda Smith. Movie Palaces: Survivors of an Elegant Era. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1980.

Sanders, Don, and Susan Sanders. The American Drive-in Movie Theatre. Osceola, WI: MBI, 2003.

Satterthwaite, Ann. Local Glories: Opera Houses on Main Street, Where Art and Community Meet. New York: Oxfore University Press, 2016.

Segrave, Kerry. Drive-in Theaters: A History from Their Inception in 1933. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1992.

Sharp, Dennis. The Picture Palace and Other Buildings for the Movies. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1969.

Valentine, Maggie. The Show Starts on the Sidewalk: An Architectural History of the Movie Theatre, Starring S. Charles Lee. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996.

Valerio, Joseph M., and Daniel Friedman. Movie Palaces: Renaissance and Reuse. Washington, DC: Academy for Architectural Development, 1982.

Waller, Gregory A., ed. Moviegoing in America: A Sourcebook in the History of Film Exhibition. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002.