The Pantages Theatre or Jones Building in Tacoma, Washington was designed by the architect B. Marcus Priteca.

The setting is characterized of downtown commercial activities and remains faithful to late 19th and early 20th century streetscapes.

The Ninth Street and Broadway facades are white, glazed terra cotta in a matt finish.

[3] The Ninth Street facade of the Theater is divided horizontally into three major sections, and vertically into five bays.

The lower level of the facade, which conforms to the steep Ninth Street grade, has received a minimum of elaboration - typical of a Renaissance, palazzo base.

Five bracketed balconettes underline these openings, creating a strong horizontal course, which firmly ties the variant bays together.

A substantial parapet above the cornice is simply ornamented with raised terra cotta rosettes, and rectangles.

Company P. S. that prepared and did the architecture renovations is the joint practice of Richard F. McCann and George T. Howard, formerly associates of the late B. Marcus Priteca, F.A.I.A., since his passing in 1971, was the original architect of the starting of the Patanges.

The Gridiron| In 1971 the gridiron was documented as an open steel flooring over the stage area, the gridiron was installed in order to support scenery and the rigging equipment necessary to “fly” or suspend this scenery within the stage area, to make access to rigging equipment easy, and safe.

The RKO Orpheum continued vaudeville acts while adopting the showing of “talkies” or sound film, and musical orchestras.

[15] The Roxy lived as a film house with the occasional performance under the management of Will J. Conner, who renovated the venue to better suit motion pictures.

[11] In 1974, the property was foreclosed upon,[17] and in 1974 the City of Tacoma purchased the Roxy due to the need of a performing arts center and in 1975 registered the building as a historic site.

The latter party declined to renew their contract and through a bidding process, multinational corporation ASM Global was chosen as the new management company.

Specific examples can be seen through orchestra, musical comedy, circus acts, and the occasional random appearance (Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1920).

During this transition, the entertainment style changed to traditional singers, radio stars, organists, and silent film showings.

Some performances shown at the Pantages Theatre (1918-1928) could be seen through the Ingleside Orchestra (10/24/1923),[21] Singer Monte Carter (1918), and Vice Presidential nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt (1920).

Film movies at The Roxy (1932-1975) such as House on a Haunted Hill (1959) and Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940) were shown frequently.

When the Pantages Theatre reopened in 1975 famous acts and people such as Della Reese (1959), Gregory Peck (1995), Debbie Reynolds (1998), Queen Latifa (2007), Chicago Musical (2013), Jeff Bridges (2014), and Cabaret Shows (2017) perform to this day.