Palais Royale Building

Palais Royale Building
Palais Royale Building, July 2012
Location113-105 W. Colfax Ave. and 201-209 N. Michigan St., South Bend, Indiana
Coordinates41°40′40″N 86°15′1″W / 41.67778°N 86.25028°W / 41.67778; -86.25028
Arealess than one acre
Built1922 (1922)
ArchitectAroner, J. S.; Handelsman, Jacob
Architectural styleSpanish Renaissance Revival
NRHP reference No.83000102
Added to NRHPJuly 21, 1983

Palais Royale Building is a historic commercial building located in South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It was built in 1922 along with the neighboring Palace Theater by the Palace Theater Corporation. It is a three-story, rectangular, Spanish Renaissance Revival-style brick building with finely crafted terra cotta ornamentation. It features a series of monumental semi-elliptical arched windows. The interior originally housed a two-story ballroom. A bombing on January 10, 1935, blew out most of the storefront windows and destroyed the corner suite.:2–4

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.