Cinema Art Theatre

226 E. 16th Street,
Indianapolis, IN 46202

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Styles: Art Deco

Previous Names: Cinema Theatre

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Cinema Art Theatre

Located on E. 16th Street at N. Delaware Street. The Cinema Theatre opened June 20, 1937. In 1959 it was showing art-house first-runs.

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Recent comments (view all 7 comments)

Chris1982
Chris1982 on June 5, 2014 at 1:53 am

The Cinema Art was located at 213 E. 16th St.

DavidAE
DavidAE on June 5, 2014 at 3:02 pm

Here is the history of the 200 block of E. 16th.

http://historicindianapolis.com/indianapolis-then-and-now-200-block-of-e-16th-street/

Chris1982, where did you come up the address? 213 E 16th would be part of a 1916 apartment building. I have reset the street view to an empty lot that had a Chinese laundry in 1927 & 1935. The Body Shop and Auto Painting building still exists at 230, 236 E 16th, the blue/gray & white building to the right. The laundry building collapsed after 1990, but if you enlarge the 1927 or 1935 detail on the above link the laundry building has the same shape as the Boxoffice photo.

Chris1982
Chris1982 on June 6, 2014 at 8:29 pm

My error, the address according to the City Directory was 226 E. 16th St..

DavidAE
DavidAE on June 7, 2014 at 3:34 am

Tinseltoes, thanks to Chris1982, we now know that the Boxoffice picture is of the old landury building after conversion.

DavidAE
DavidAE on June 7, 2014 at 3:42 am

Chris1982, Thanks for including your source. It is a good idea to include source when adding information, I think, so others can follow up in future years.

DavidAE
DavidAE on March 25, 2015 at 8:04 am

Historic Indianapolis has some comments at this site that gives more information about this theater.

rivest266
rivest266 on October 25, 2015 at 4:09 pm

June 20th, 1937 grand opening ad in photo section.

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