Miller Theater
351 Saratoga Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11233
351 Saratoga Avenue,
Brooklyn,
NY
11233
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The Miller Theatre likely opened in 1914. The May 2 issue of Real Estate Record and Builders Guide that year carried this notice: “SARATOGA AV, es, 67 n St. Marks av, 1-sty brick theatre. 52.2x52.3, slag roof: cost, $10.000; owner, Main Bldg. Co., 1464 Eastern parkway; architects, Eisenla & Carlson, 16 Court st. Plan No. 2523.”
I have a correction to make due to not looking closely & confusing it with another nearby church. I live diagonally across the street from this building & indeed it is a church. When I moved here in 1969, this building was then a supermarket, for some reason, Associated comes to mind.
At that point, there was no decor which would’ve led me to believe that it had once been a theatre. However, whereas the building has been refaced, back then, the external facing indeed looked like that of many neighborhood movies minus the marquee.
I only wish that I had been old enough back then to understand the history that surrounded me, as well as the many theatres which still stood back then. And I wish that I had understood how drastically things would change & how many of those theatres & building would simply disappear in a relatively short period of time.
It’s next to impossible to find any pictures of these buildings & most of the old neighbors whom would’ve had them have either moved away decades ago or are dead.
Maybe someday…
The theater appears to now be a church.