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Photograph of Fox Fullerton Theatre
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Fox Fullerton Theatre Complex

Built in 1925 (Italian Renaissance). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 21 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

“Fox Theatre is a historic movie theater located on Harbor Boulevard in Fullerton, California. Built in 1925 as part of the chain of Fox Theatres, the theater was closed and abandoned in 1987.”

Wikipedia article Fox Theatre (Fullerton, California), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 2006 · category: District · built in 1925, Italian Renaissance, by Raymond M. Kennedy.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 500-512 N. Harbor Blvd., Fullerton
  • When was it listed? October 2006
  • Category. district
  • When was it built? 1925
  • Architectural style. Italian Renaissance
  • Architect. Raymond M. Kennedy
  • National Register reference number. 06000948 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Storms near this property

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fullerton, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2014: 2 heavy rain, 2 funnel cloud, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2003Heavy RainFullerton1 hurt, $150,000no account filed
January 2005Heavy RainFullerton$15,000,000no account filed
October 2000FloodFullerton$30,000no account filed
December 2004Thunderstorm WindFullerton$20,000Numerous trees blown down.
May 2014Dust DevilFullerton$6,000Public reported a dust devil near Fullerton that came abruptly out of the west carrying large amounts of dust and leaves, and damaged portions of roof shingles on a few homes with estimated wind gusts of 60 mph.
January 2005Funnel CloudFullerton-no account filed
December 2004Funnel CloudFullerton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orange County

Maps showing this location

21 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 06000948 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orange CountyAll 136 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.