The City of Tacoma’s Landmarks Preservation Commission is scheduled Oct. 22 to conduct a preliminary review of a nomination to place the 85-year-old Blue Mouse Theatre on the city’s register of historic places.

According to the theatre’s Web site, the venue, located at 2611 N. Proctor St., was opened Nov. 13, 1923 by John Hamrick, who modeled it after a Paris lounge. Over the next 50-plus years, the 420-seat, 4,100-square-foot theatre changed ownership and names (Proctor Theatre, Bijou) several times. In 1993, a group of activists called the Blue Mouse Associates purchased and renovated the theatre, which at one point was slated to be turned into office space. The renovation saved and preserved the building’s original Craftsman-style timbering, polished marble terrazzo, globe light sconces, mahogany doors and Tiffany-style glass exit signs.

The commission will meet Weds., Oct. 22 at 5:00 p.m. at 728 St. Helens, Tacoma Municipal Building North, Room 16. For a copy of the agenda, visit http://www.tacomaculture.org/historic/resources.asp .

The Blue Mouse Theatre nomination comes during a year that has seen many Tacoma properties added to the historic register. In August, Park Universalist Church, Saint Luke’s Memorial Episcopal Church, Frisko Freeze and the Dorothy Apartments were added to the register.