The former Regent Theatre is currently used as a church but a photo from 1915 shows the original Thomas W. Lamb designed interior of the stage. This grand Venetian style venue eventually turned into a Vaudeville playhouse and then a movie palace before it became a house of worship on the corner of 116th Street and ACP/7th Avenue. Apparently much of the original interior is intact today but the murals were probably damaged and removed long ago. There are still a lot of renovations needed for the facade of the historic structure but the First Cornithian Baptist Church has been able to keep it intact for past decades.
Archival photo by Joseph Byron Co. courtesy the digital collection at the Museum of the City of New York
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