Lee Theatre
3162 Williamson Road,
Roanoke,
VA
24012
3162 Williamson Road,
Roanoke,
VA
24012
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Previously operated by: Consolidated Theatres
Architects: George A. Eheling
Firms: Eubank & Caldwell
Functions: Housing, Office Space
Styles: Streamline Moderne
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Located in a suburb of Roanoke. The Lee Theatre opened by Dan Weinberg on October 3, 1941 with Bette Davis in “The Little Foxes”. Seating was provided in orchestra and a small mezzanine level. There were two large murals located on the splay-walls on each side of the proscenium opening.
By the late-1970’s the Lee Theatre was operating as an adult theatre. It was closed on March 15, 1985 with Julia Parton in “Pleasure Zone” & Sharon Thorpe in “Overnight Sensation”. It later converted into office space on the ground floor and apartments on the first floor.
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I mentioned this theater on another Roanoke listing years ago.The building still looks good,but was LONG ago converted to office space.Doesn’t really look like a theater,per se,unlike the Salem Theater.The one movie I remeber seeing there was the semi-grim Swedish Elvira Madigan.
This one opened on October 3, 1941 with Bette Davis in “The Little Foxes”.
The correct address of the Lee Theatre is 3162 Williamson Road, at the southeast corner of Haffen Street. The building was not demolished, but converted for offices on the ground floor with apartments on a new second floor.
A comment by architect George A. Eheling in the September 22, 1948 issue of The Exhibitor says that he designed the Lee Theatre in Roanoke. It’s likely that Eubank & Caldwell acted as supervising architects for Eheling, whose office was in Cleveland, Ohio.
Also, note the correct address and current use for the Lee’s building in my previous comment.
Closed December 23rd, 1979 by Consolidated Theatres.
Lee Theatre closing 24 Dec 1979, Mon Roanoke Times and World-News (Roanoke, Virginia) Newspapers.com
and reopened by new owners in 1980 who showed adult movies until its listings ended (and presumed closed) in 1985.
Appears to have closed after the March 15, 1985 double feature of Julia Parton in “Pleasure Zone” and Sharon Thorpe in “Overnight Sensation.”