State Theatre

453 N. Liberty Street,
Winston-Salem, NC 27101

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50sSNIPES
50sSNIPES on November 5, 2024 at 9:49 am

Once operated by North Carolina Theatres.

Predator
Predator on March 9, 2018 at 3:55 pm

The Auditorium Theatre opened January 28th, 1918. Reopened as the State Theatre April 21st, 1930.

Arby
Arby on June 27, 2011 at 6:37 pm

I recently looked at this location and investigated old pictures. This parking deck seems to have been built on sites which contained the State (to the north) and Colonial Theaters(and all the stores in between).

Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers on June 25, 2011 at 7:21 pm

I guess it to was torn down for a parking Lot.

Arby
Arby on May 26, 2011 at 8:59 pm

The lettering “AUDITORIUM” on the facade was in the ancient Roman style, where the U would look like a V. That made an impression on me as a child: it confused me, so I would always look up when I passed the building.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on April 9, 2011 at 3:04 am

The book “Winston-Salem in Vintage Postcards,” by Molly Grogan Rawls, says that the Auditorium Theatre was built on the site of the Elks Auditorium after the old theater burned down on April 27, 1916.

Arby
Arby on April 5, 2011 at 6:49 pm

The Auditorium Theater was later known as State Theater. After the State closed it was a furniture store called State Furniture. For some reason I was in there once, and I remember the furniture being displayed on the downward slope of the former orchestra-level floor. I wish I could have seen a movie there but the theater must have closed when I was a child.