The Louisville Palace Theater opened in 1928 as the Loew's Theater on the former site of the Penthouse/United Artists Theater and was designed by architect John Eberson. Elegant and ornate, it features a Spanish Baroque motif with arcades, balconies, and turrets, cobalt blue with bursts of red and gold lighting its niches, coves, and entrances, and a curved vaulted ceiling above with 129 sculptures of the faces of historical figures. The theater room inside The Palace is heavily ornamented and displays an imitation nighttime sky on the ceiling. It was one of six local theaters identified by the NAACP for demonstrations because they refused to admit African Americans. As images of arrests appeared in local newspapers, the number of demonstrators and demonstrations outside the theater increased, and more than 180 students and 10 adults were arrested during one of the largest demonstrations. After passage of the public accommodations ordinance, the theater continued to prosper through the '70s as a first-run movie palace. In the early '90s, investors undertook a multimillion-dollar restoration, and today the Louisville Palace Theater is owned by Live Nation Entertainment and hosts Broadway touring shows and performances by well-known artists.