Nice night time marquee shot. This was recently home to Teener’s costume shop. The building is now vacant and for sale. It has great terra cotta on that narrow little facade. View link
Check out the site in my post above, the remodeling is going to be supurb, especially the annex. The project is awaiting funding from the state legistlature.
1920s pic- View link This shows the recently replicated vertical. The beaux arts glass and iron marquee was not replicated, rather they opted for a modern one.
I understand that the theater was not originally part of the developers plans (i.e. demo), what a loss that would have been. It would be great to restore that old marquee. Look’t all them lights ma!
It is pretty amazing what water can do to a building. All of the damage seen occured after my fair city took over the property. They neglected to replace the roof for 8 years all while keeping the sump pump in the basement turned off. A few weeks before the pics, the basement lounge (above) had 8 inches of water. There were wooden gang-planks on bricks to walk around on.
The city did pay for a new roof recently as well as lead and asbestos abatment.
And yes, that is slime as well as mold. The walls were so wet that the mold grew like fur. The auditorium shot shows the spore count in the air. It was bad but now heaters have been installed to dry it out.
The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra has a home, at, where else?, Symphony Hall!! The theater is much too small for symphony orchestra.
The theater closed in 2003 after a plan to reorganize it as a multi-pupose entertainment venue fell through. The owner would not negotiate with the tenant, or something along those lines. The group that was to run the theater is now putting their energy into another neighborhood theater, the Hollywood Theater in Mpls. /theaters/5994/
I thought the trees were especially important to the ambience of the courtyard, the awning I guess can go. Maybe they need more room for the paw prints of stars.
I am assuming the facade is stone? If so, the last thing one would want to do is hack bits and pieces away. It is unclear in the article and the picture, but why the hell would you do that? Stone cannot be ‘patched’. It doesn’t look like they were trying to flatten it so it could be covered up (as was so popular in the 1940s-70s). Pehaps they are trying to make it so ugly and unrepairable that they can tear it down and build condos, that’s my guess. Sort of a version of ‘demolition by neglect’ but they decided to give the neglect part a head start. A ugh…
Oops, the map is about 2 blocks too far north. The 4 digit zip must be incorrect, 2255 is my home 4 dig just 2 blocks away (about where the star is.) It should be just 55418.
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Opening Day 1937
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A better 1933 picture-
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Nice night time marquee shot. This was recently home to Teener’s costume shop. The building is now vacant and for sale. It has great terra cotta on that narrow little facade.
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Procenium-
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Boxes-
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Oh so moderne…
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A picture looking towards Nicollet. Next door was the Century
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Just after opening,
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A later marquee (the veritcal reminds of a pez candy for some reason, coulndn’t tell you why)-
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Fire!! Looks like the asbestos curtain saved the auditorium-
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Stop!, leave it alone-
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Check out the site in my post above, the remodeling is going to be supurb, especially the annex. The project is awaiting funding from the state legistlature.
1920s pic-
View link This shows the recently replicated vertical. The beaux arts glass and iron marquee was not replicated, rather they opted for a modern one.
A later marquee-
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The horrible lobby redesigned by Jack Liebenberg. All of that aluminum in shades of blue and gold-
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1957- You can see the whole scope of the Stimson bldg. It does look very odd because it lacks its intended upper floors-
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I believe the front of the marquee says something to the effect of: Minneapolis' Most Beautiful Suburban Theater.
The links didn’t work… here’s the link to the exterior shots and the interior shots.
Before the more recent remodel- groovy anondized gold aluminum:
http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/165
And vintage shot with all good stuff from the streetfront(this link may not work)
And the well appointed interior. Exotic huh?
The theater before the fire:
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In this shot, the Granada or Suburban World is visible down the street just before the trees:
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And Now:
http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/881
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I understand that the theater was not originally part of the developers plans (i.e. demo), what a loss that would have been. It would be great to restore that old marquee. Look’t all them lights ma!
It is pretty amazing what water can do to a building. All of the damage seen occured after my fair city took over the property. They neglected to replace the roof for 8 years all while keeping the sump pump in the basement turned off. A few weeks before the pics, the basement lounge (above) had 8 inches of water. There were wooden gang-planks on bricks to walk around on.
The city did pay for a new roof recently as well as lead and asbestos abatment.
And yes, that is slime as well as mold. The walls were so wet that the mold grew like fur. The auditorium shot shows the spore count in the air. It was bad but now heaters have been installed to dry it out.
The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra has a home, at, where else?, Symphony Hall!! The theater is much too small for symphony orchestra.
The theater closed in 2003 after a plan to reorganize it as a multi-pupose entertainment venue fell through. The owner would not negotiate with the tenant, or something along those lines. The group that was to run the theater is now putting their energy into another neighborhood theater, the Hollywood Theater in Mpls.
/theaters/5994/
I thought the trees were especially important to the ambience of the courtyard, the awning I guess can go. Maybe they need more room for the paw prints of stars.
Where are the courtyard trees and awning?
I am assuming the facade is stone? If so, the last thing one would want to do is hack bits and pieces away. It is unclear in the article and the picture, but why the hell would you do that? Stone cannot be ‘patched’. It doesn’t look like they were trying to flatten it so it could be covered up (as was so popular in the 1940s-70s). Pehaps they are trying to make it so ugly and unrepairable that they can tear it down and build condos, that’s my guess. Sort of a version of ‘demolition by neglect’ but they decided to give the neglect part a head start. A ugh…
Here is a link to the story from the Minnesota Daily, the newspaper of the U of M Twin Cities. There are a few pictures.
http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2004/02/09/8212
Oops, the map is about 2 blocks too far north. The 4 digit zip must be incorrect, 2255 is my home 4 dig just 2 blocks away (about where the star is.) It should be just 55418.
Here is a site with a picture of the theater:
http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/898
It doesn’t look like much now but it once was immensly beautiful. I will try to get some pics on the web from the 1935 opening.
Wow, the theater is very much intact except for the auditorium floor and plaster walls.