Nugget Theaters
57 S. Main Street,
Hanover,
NH
03755
57 S. Main Street,
Hanover,
NH
03755
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Firms: Orcutt & Marston
Functions: Movies (First Run)
Styles: Colonial Revival
Previous Names: Nugget Theater
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Box Office:
603.643.2769
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The Nugget Theater located near Dartmouth College opened on September 24, 1951. This theater replaced a prior Nugget Theater that opened in 1916 and was destroyed by fire on January 28, 1944. (it has its own page on Cinema Treasures). The original Nugget Theater was located near E. Wheelock Street & S. Main Street, which is approximately two blocks away from the current theater site.
The Nugget Theater was designed by architectural firm Orcutt & Marston and was built and operated by Hanover Improvement Society. The seating capacity at opening was for 895, all on a single level. It became a twin screen theatre on September 22, 1972. On May 25, 1997 it was enlarged to four screens.
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Author Bill Bryson mentions this theater in his book “I’m A Stranger Here Myself”. Upon returning to the US after 20 years in the UK, Bryson settled in Hanover because it had a main street complete with a bank, a library, a bookstore, a cafe and an old theater. I like this man’s outlook on life.
The 1950 edition of Film Daily Yearbook listed the Nugget Theater on Main Street with a seating capacity given as 710.
The seating capacity for the original Nugget Theater is listed as 520 in the 1941 and 1943 editions of F.D.Y.
Saw James Stewart and Kim Novak in Alfred Hackneydplot’s “Vertigo” there while taking a summer course at Dartmouth Medical School in 1984. Don’t remember much about the theater, but there was a restaurant not far away that had 50 different kinds of pizza in the evenings and 50 different kinds of omelettes in the mornings. A true entrepreneurial inspiration…
The Nugget was designed by architect Frank J. Barrett and completed in 1970.
See the article by Frank J. Barrett, Jr., in Constructive Images (Fall 2005), available at View link
Correction to the previous post by Nuggeteer; The Nugget Arcade (not the Nugget Theater) was constructed in 1970.
2 screens on September 22nd, 1972 and 4 screens on May 25th, 1997. Grand opening ads posted.
Actual opening date is September 24, 1951.