The Kings Island Theater

[Losantiville Mining Co.]

Does anyone know what building the Kings Island Theater (formerly the American Heritage Music Hall and The Paramount Theater) might have been designed to resemble? For the longest time I thought it might have just been one of the somewhat generic American styles, but now I'm wondering if it was designed to look like a building at Coney Island. There's one next to the Moonlite Gardens building that has the same general characteristics and made me wonder. They both have the brick detail with a black shingle Mansard-ish roof and a cupola clock tower on top in the center. 

Much appreciation for any answers you all can provide!

[burlguy41005]

Hence the original name...my guess just designed in a New England style of sorts....always looks good...

 

[Losantiville Mining Co.]

Some kind of 18th-19th century New England or Mid-Atlantic style would be my guess as well for the architectural style, but the building at Coney Island looks like it could have served as the inspiration for the building at Kings Island. The same design was reused for the Mason-Dixon Music Hall at Kings Dominion (now the Kings Dominion Theater). I believe the Canterbury Theater at Canada's Wonderland also uses this same floor plan, but the facade was changed due to how that park purposely avoided anything that could have made it feel too Americanized. 

Carowinds and Great America had their own big theaters before Taft acquired them. If I'm being honest, the Carowinds Theater does not look very good from the outside. The Great America Theater looks good for the most part, though.