Vogue Theatre
710 Michigan Street NE,
Grand Rapids,
MI
49503
710 Michigan Street NE,
Grand Rapids,
MI
49503
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Previously operated by: Independent Exhibitors Theater Services
Functions: Bar, Restaurant
Styles: Streamline Moderne
Previous Names: Michigan Theatre
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Opened on June 24, 1916 as the Michigan Theatre which closed in 1928. It was remodeled in a Streamline Moderne style and reopened as the Vogue Theatre on April 17, 1938 with Irene Dunne in “High Wide and Handsome” & Richard Cromwell in “The Wrong Road”. It was an independent theatre. Seating was listed at 440. Independent Theatre Exhibitor Services did the booking for the Vogue Theatre.
The Vogue Theatre closed temporarily on August 30, 1946 with Bing Crosby in “The Bells of St. Mary’s”. It never reopened and after sitting vacant and unused until 1951 when it was sold to Radio Bible Class Inc. It was later converted to a Chinese Restaurant. By 2024 it was a bar & grill named the Glass House.
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The Vogue opened in 1938. It was a rebuild of a 1923 theater called the Michigan, which had been closed for ten years according to one Boxoffice item about the project. Before and after photos appeared in this article in Boxoffice of October 15, 1938. I can’t find the name of the architect who designed the remodeling, though architects are named for the other two remodeling projects featured in the article.
The Michigan Theatre was apparently a bit older than the author of the 1938 Boxoffice article I cited earlier thought. Here is an item from the July 15, 1916, issue of The Moving Picture World:
The 1938 photo of the Vogue in Boxoffice has been moved to this link.The photos of the Vogue in Boxoffice of October 15, 1938, mentioned in my previous comment, are now at this link.
Reopened as Vogue on April 17th, 1938. Ad posted.
Ads for the Vogue ended in 1946.
The 650-seat Michigan Theatre launched on June 24, 1916 by G.H. and C.W. Budde. of the Alcazar. Howard T. Reynolds took on the the Michigan Theater giving it a $5,000 streamline makeover and new name of the Vogue Theatre.
It relaunched on April 17, 1938 with High Wide and Handsome supported by The Wrong Road. The Vogue Theater temporarily closed on August 30, 1946 after showing “The Bells of St. Mary’s.” An ad promised its return after a refresh that never occurred. Reynolds, who also had the Family and the Stocking theaters - moved on from the Vogue. It sat vacant and was sold to Radio Bible Class, Inc. in 1951 for $20,000.