Proctor's Theater is located on Fourth Street (northbound US 4) in Troy, New York, United States.

Its double-balcony auditorium made it easily adaptable for showing motion pictures when that entertainment came into fashion soon after it opened.

The one above the main entry features a variety of terra cotta details: colonettes, dentils, escutcheons, and paretae[check spelling].

The tiled lobby with arched ceilings and paneled walls, leads via staircases to the two balconies, and into a foyer to the orchestra floor.

It cost $325,000[7][8] to construct, and when it opened in 1914 it became the largest theater in the state and was praised as "a structure ranking foremost in American theatrical circles.

The Troy Proctor's classically inspired double-balcony form lent itself well to the movies because it put the audience close to the stage no matter where they were in the theater.

The size of the audience that attended the first performance was the largest ever assembled in the history of Proctor’s; according to the Manager Emde.

[14] In the early 2000s, RPI acquired the building and hoped to partially use it as office space and keep the theater.

They eventually brought in a developer who proposed to use a state grant to gut the building's interior and replace the auditorium with office space, while keeping the facade.

Residents organized a group and online petition in opposition to this, pointing to how successful the restoration of the Schenectady Proctor's had been for that city.

[15] Proponents of the plan responded that the theater had not been successfully redeveloped in the years since it had closed and it was time to try something else to revitalize a block of downtown Troy that remained dilapidated.

They noted that the Schenectady Proctor's still lost money and that the project would create jobs the city needed in a slow economy.