The E.F. Albee Theater (later the RKO Albee Theater) at the intersection of Fulton Street and DeKalb Avenue, 1925. The Beaux-Arts theater, designed by Thomas Lamb, opened in 1925. It was named for vaudeville impresario Edward Franklin Albee (grandfather of the Broadway playwright), whose Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corporation was a major manager of vaudeville and, later, motion picture venues.

The Albee Theater featured a grand interior lobby, with crystal chandeliers, marble columns, and what was at time considered the world’s largest rug, a 2,800 square foot Czech Maffersdorf carpet.

The theater was closed and demolished in 1978, making way for the Albee Square Mall, itself razed in 2008 for redevelopment. The new mixed-use City Point project includes a movie theater.