Old Greenbelt Theatre

Greenbelt, United States

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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Phone: +1-301-329-2034

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The Greenbelt Cinema, a historic two-screen movie theater built between 1937 and 1938 in Roosevelt Center within Greenbelt, Maryland, exemplifies the Streamline Moderne variant of Art Deco that dominated 1930s cinema design. Designed by architects Reginald Jeffrey Wadsworth and Douglas Ellington, it opened to the public on September 21, 1938, premiering *Little Miss Broadway* starring Shirley Temple. After the City of Greenbelt acquired the threatened building in 2002 to preserve it as a cinema, major renovations from 2014–2015 added digital projection capabilities, restored its lobby and ticket booth, and enhanced the concession area. Today it operates as a nonprofit organization seating 368 patrons in its main auditorium and 40 in its auxiliary screening room, making it one of Maryland's rare nonprofit two-screen theaters. The cinema is a contributing property to the National Register of Historic Places.