Falls Theatre
115 SE 1st Street,
Little Falls,
MN
56345
115 SE 1st Street,
Little Falls,
MN
56345
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Falls Theatre (Official)
Additional Info
Architects: Perry E. Crosier, Jack J. Liebenberg
Firms: Liebenberg and Kaplan
Functions: Movies (First Run)
Styles: Art Deco
Previous Names: Falls Cinema
Phone Numbers:
Box Office:
320.639.1933
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The Little Theatre opened in 1913 and built on the site of the former Lowell Theatre that was destroyed by fire in that same year. That was destroyed by fire in January 1933 and the Falls Theatre was built and opened in June 1933 with Lee Tracy in “The Nuisance”.
The exterior features flashing neon lights, black Vitrolite highlights the marquee and around the poster cases of the lobby.
After a couple remodels it was again remodeled in 1937 to reflect the 10th anniversary of Charles Lingbergh’s trans-Atlantic flight. Charles Lindbergh was from Little Falls. The theatre was given an aviation theme. A mural of an aviator holding, a globe, an airplane and a dirigible.
In its last remodel it was triplexed and was renamed Falls Cinema. It was closed (temporarily) on July 16, 2020. It was reopened on October 6, 2023 when one of the movies screened was the original 1933 opener: “The Nuisance”.
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Chuck Van Bibber
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According to their facebook page they are still open.
A March 3, 2012, article in the Morris County Record said that the Lowell Theatre was opened in 1915, and was destroyed by a fire in January, 1933. The Falls Theatre was built on the same site, opening in June, 1933.
The April 8, 1933, issue of Motion Picture Herald said that a 750-seat theater was being built for the Lowell Theatre Company at Little Falls, Minnesota, to a replace their house that had been destroyed by a fire. Plans for the project were by Liebenberg & Kaplan.
According to the Facebook page, 2 of the 3 screens are digital.
Just tried the phone number, its been disconnected. According to their Facebook page, their last day of operation before an unknown length of “temporary” closure was 7/16/2020. When I was in Little Falls MN this summer, the theater was still closed, and the marquee said “Closed until…. hollywood….”
Another theater in Little Falls… the Ripley. I dropped a picture in the photos
CosmicBraxton, I have created a page for the Ripley Theatre if you could please post your photograph of the Ripley Theatre there. Many Thanks.
The Falls Theatre is open again, with shows nightly plus matinees Saturday and Sunday. Here is the official web site.
The NRHP registration form for the Little Falls Commercial Historic District attributes the design of the Falls Theatre to architect Perry Crosier.
Its official web site is once again listing this house as the Falls Theatre rather than the Falls Cinema. According to this article from Minnesota Public Radio News the new owners, Phil and Suzy Prosapio, are a local couple who have been involved in renovating and reinvigorating downtown Little Falls for some time, and they completely renovated the theater, restoring its 1933 Art Deco look, before reopening it on Friday, October 6, 2023. The opening feature on one of the three screens was “The Nuisance,” the romantic comedy that opened the house in 1933.
The lit-up marquee for this theatre showed up in a recent crime documentary on Investigation Discovery.A Man’s Home is his Castle