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	Sorrento Athenaeum Sorrento Cinema , Atheneum Theatre 20 - 36 Ocean Beach Road,, SORRENTO VIC 3943 - Property No B6735	The Sorrento Athenaeum was constructed in 1894 for local entrepreneur Isaac Bensilum, and designed by J F Gibbins, and is architecturally and historically significant at a State level as an early and unusually ornate and generally intact privately built 19th century theatrical hall, a rare building type. The auditorium features a large cornice and pilasters, three deep plaster domes, set into a ceiling of gridded/floral plasterwork, which also lines the proscenium wall, the ... more	B6735	State

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Sorrento Athenaeum

Sorrento Cinema , Atheneum Theatre

20 - 36 Ocean Beach Road,, SORRENTO VIC 3943 - Property No B6735

The Sorrento Athenaeum was constructed in 1894 for local entrepreneur Isaac Bensilum, and designed by J F Gibbins, and is architecturally and historically significant at a State level as an early and unusually ornate and generally intact privately built 19th century theatrical hall, a rare building type. The auditorium features a large cornice and pilasters, three deep plaster domes, set into a ceiling of gridded/floral plasterwork, which also lines the proscenium wall, the ... more

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