Reeves Theatre & Cafe
129 W. Main Street,
Elkin,
NC
28621
129 W. Main Street,
Elkin,
NC
28621
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Previously operated by: Statesville Theater Corp.
Functions: Café, Live Performances
Previous Names: Elk Theatre, Elk Twin Theatre
Phone Numbers:
Box Office:
336.258.8240
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News About This Theater
- Jun 17, 2011 — Help fund Reeves Theatre restoration
The Elk Theatre opened March 1, 1937. The building was vacant, but money was raised to renovate the Reeves Theatre. It reopened in December 2017 as the Reeves Theatre & Cafe.
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A donations jug that had been on a local bookstore’s counter that had been placed there to collect money to help restore the Reeves was recently stolen: View link
Thanks Chuck,hope the theatre was saved and not a parking lot.
The NRHP nomination form for the Downtown Elkin Historic District (PDF here) has a paragraph about the Reeves Theatre. It says that Dr. W. B. Reeves built the 300-seat Elk Theatre in 1937, and built the 700-seat Reeves Theatre in 1941 after realizing that the town could support a larger house. It doesn’t say that the Elk Theatre was on the same site as the Reeves, but doesn’t say it wasn’t. It’s possible that part of the original theater was incorporated into the new house.
This article from the July 2, 2012, issue of The Winston-Salem Journal says that the Reeves Theatre had been entirely gutted in preparation for a renovation as a performing arts space. Even the balcony had been removed. The Elk Twin had closed in 1994, after a storm damaged the roof.
A video and a collection of 19 photos accompany the article. Most of the photos show the abandoned building before it was gutted, but a few are after. One after photo shows that the original art modern facade has also been stripped off of the building, leaving bare brick, though the marquee is still intact.
This brief item from October 24, 1940, issue of The Elkin Tribune makes it sound as though the Reeves Theatre was not to be built on the same site as the Elk Theatre:
I’ve been unable to discover if the Reeves Theatre was indeed built at the location announced in this article. If the Elk Theatre was in a different location than the Reeves I don’t know what became of it. I’ve found no references to it after 1940, so if it was a different house it must have closed when the Reeves Theatre opened.Renovation is again underway at the Reeves Theatre, and the venue could be opened by summer of 2016, according to this illustrated articleposted by the Elkin Tribune on July 17, 2015.
This one opened as the Elk Theatre on March 1, 1937.
Here is an update on the Reeves Theater in Elkin, North Carolina. Please stop in and enjoy this new and exciting live music venue, which also includes a bar and cafe serving farm to table menu items… learn more at www.reevestheater.com and watch this video that was on UNC-TV recently: https://video.unctv.org/video/reeves-theater-and-cafe-mzcdbb/
And yes, the Elk Twin and the Reeves Theater are the same building…The theater was once for movies, now it has been renovated into a live music venue.