Queen Theatre

Originally built as a hotel in 1885, it began screening movies on the first floor level in the early-1900’s. It was named Queen Theatre on May 7, 1914. It was remodeled in an Art Deco style in 1939 to the plans of architectural firm Pettigrew & Worley, screening Ginger Rogers in “5th Avenue Girl” as its December 1939 reopening movie. The Queen Theatre was closed on November 14, 1976.

It then fell into a state of disrepair which occurred over several decades. The Downtown Byron Association purchased the building in 2010 and a community effort realised its restoration. The façade was restored in 2012. The Queen Theatre was reopened in May 2018 as a single screen movie theatre with some live performance use. Since reopening the Queen Theatre has screened an average of 5 movies a week and has been host to the Byron High Theatre Department’s “Holiday Radio Play”, and the Queen’s Film Society meetings.

Recent comments (view all 31 comments)

Erich Friend on April 5, 2011 at 5:27 pm

The queen is being restored.
Queen Blog: (http://downtownbryan.com/blog/queen/)

Mike Richardson on April 15, 2011 at 9:41 pm

Looks like the Queen is on 110 South Main, not North Main.

savethequeen on May 10, 2012 at 11:05 pm

In 1914, a theatre located at 210 South Main in Bryan, TX changed ownership and was renamed the “Queen Theatre”. In 1939, it was sold again and remodeled into the art deco style that has remained. Today, thanks to all of our supporters, we have had a successful start to Saving the Queen! We have restored the façade, the lighting, and we have re-crowned the Queen. We will soon have the roof replacement complete and will be ready to begin the interior remodeling!

robboehm on June 9, 2015 at 1:30 pm

Photos of the restored façade uploaded. There are a lot of depressing photos as a derelict, which I won’t upload, if you go to Bryan, TX Theaters Images.

dallasmovietheaters on October 15, 2015 at 4:16 am

Pettigrew and Worley architectural sketch of the 1939 redesign and deco-themes in photos.

purplerose53 on February 18, 2016 at 5:40 pm

I remember going thereis as a young child. Love the outside.I hope they don’t demo it. It is such a part of The Bryan of bygone days.

JRHagan on June 14, 2021 at 4:08 pm

A google search of of the Queen shows what looks like a screening room of some kind called the STAFFORD THEATER. right next to the Queen ….any information or photos of that location ?

Joe Vogel on June 14, 2021 at 4:46 pm

JRHagan: Cinema Treasures has a page for the Grand Stafford Theater. There’s a link to it in the “Nearby Theaters” field on the right side of this page.

rivest266 on August 12, 2023 at 12:08 pm

The last listing appeared in the Eagle on November 14th, 1976, as a full-time movie theatre.

rivest266 on October 20, 2023 at 12:53 am

Showing Three Ring Circus:

Queen Theatre showing “Three Ring Circus” 16 Aug 1985, Fri Bryan-College Station Eagle (Bryan, Texas) Newspapers.com