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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 10/07/2026 05:03:00

The Strand Ballroom and Theatre is a nearly 2,000-capacity live music venue at 79 Washington Street in downtown Providence, Rhode Island, making it the city's oldest surviving theatre. Designed by architect Thomas J. Hill Pierce and built for seventy-five thousand dollars, it opened on June 12, 1915, as a vaudeville house. The Strand became the Paramount Theatre from 1930 to 1934 when it converted to talking pictures, then reverted to its original name. It closed as a cinema in 1978, briefly bec...