Hollywood Theater

Minneapolis, United States

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The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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The Hollywood Theater in Minneapolis's Audubon Park neighborhood opened on October 26, 1935, as a Streamline Moderne movie palace designed by architects Jack Liebenberg and Seeman Kaplan. Proclaimed the "Incomparable Showcase of the Northwest," the theater boasted a generous budget that enabled elaborate Art Deco ornamentation, including gilded pillars, a patterned terrazzo floor, and acoustical tiles in geometric patterns—influences drawn from both Zig-Zag Moderne and Streamline Moderne styles. Its exterior, faced in smooth Kasota limestone, featured powerful geometric masses with vertical lines transitioning to horizontal, punctuated by the entrance, exits, and three small projection booth windows. The theater seated just under 1,000 and included a tall vertical sign. Despite critical praise as the Twin Cities' most beautiful neighborhood theater, it struggled financially, closed in 1987, and was designated a local landmark in 1990. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the building has since faced an uncertain future amid various unrealized redevelopment proposals.