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Nor Shor Theater

Duluth, MN
211 E. Superior Street
, Duluth, MN 55802 United States
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Status: Open/Restoring
Screens: Single Screen
Style: Art Deco
Function: Concerts, Live Theater, Movies
Seats: 1202
Chain: Unknown
Architect: Jack J. Liebenberg
Firm: Liebenberg and Kaplan
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The city of Duluth purchased the Art Deco style Nor Shor Theater in 2001 and has begun restoring it. Renovations will most likely cost more than $6 million and no private business was able to handle the expense. The Nor Shor Theater is being purchased from its current owner and the purchase of the Bridgeman building will also enable the city to restore the nearby, 1,200-seat, Orpheum Theater, which was built in 1910.

The Nor Shor Theater, which was erected in 1941, is still in operation as a local venue for films, concerts and stage shows.

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Nor Shor Theater (Official)
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I am trying to gain a list of movies that were played at both the Norshor, and the Granada theaters in the sixties. Any help out there?

Thanks!
posted by TomHalverson on Oct 2, 2002 at 5:43am
The city of Duluth deal fell through and the Norshor Theatre remains in private hands. A series of lessees in the past few years have come and gone. Theatre continues to operate in fits and starts. The old Orpheum and the Norshor are the same building. The Orpheum was retrofitted so to speak, with the entrance moved, and the auditorium was flipped around in the opposition direction (stage to back of theatre). The new Norshor opened inside the shell of the old Orpheum in October 1941. As for the 1960s playdates of the Granada and Norshor, I have a lot of that information but not in a user friendly format that just focuses on those two theatres. Your best bet is to simply go through microfilms of the newspapers at the library.
posted by cjarrett on Aug 16, 2004 at 1:20pm
Architect(s) were Libenberg & Kaplan.
posted by BB on Aug 18, 2004 at 11:15am
The address for the Norshor Theatre is 1211 East Superior St., Duluth, Mn. 55802 Their website is http/www.norshor.com
posted by Chuck1231 on Aug 18, 2004 at 1:44pm
The correct address is 211, not 1211. The norshor.com site is the PREVIOUS management and no longer updated. The current operators' web site is norshor.biz
posted by cjarrett on Sep 14, 2004 at 12:59am
The Film Daily Yearbook, 1950 gives a seating capacity for the Norshor Theater as 1,202.
posted by KenRoe on Jan 6, 2005 at 8:42am
Here is alink to a photo of the Norshor Theatre.
http://www.mnfilm.org/fun/mn_norshor.asp
posted by Chuck1231 on Apr 20, 2005 at 11:57am
Here is another photo of the Norshor Theater.
posted by Lost Memory on Aug 24, 2005 at 1:16pm
One more photo of the Norshor Theater.
posted by Lost Memory on Aug 24, 2005 at 1:18pm
The city attorney of Duluth and many local business owners are quite unhappy with the plans the NorShor's new owner has for the old theater:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13087460/
posted by northstar16 on Jun 17, 2006 at 8:20pm
This is a recent photo of the Norshor Theater.

posted by Lost Memory on Feb 9, 2007 at 4:15am
Too bad Duluth was too shortsighted to help out the previous owner. Looks like he got you good; now you're stuck with the trashiest strip club this side of the Mississippi and some a-hole who owns all of the theaters and only plays Hollywood blockbusters. The city owes itself a pat on the back!!
posted by backlash on Jan 21, 2009 at 10:20pm
What's happening to this theatre? Has it been turned into a strip club or what?
posted by Kirk J. Besse on Mar 30, 2009 at 11:37am
1986 photo of the Nor Shor Theatre.
http://americanclassicimages.com/Default.aspx?tabid=141&txtSearch=CATAdvancedSearch1%2c23%2c3%2c-1&catpageindex=2&catpagesize=25&ProductID=28710
Another 1986 photo of the Nor Shor Theatre.
http://americanclassicimages.com/Default.aspx?tabid=141&txtSearch=CATAdvancedSearch1%2c23%2c3%2c-1&catpageindex=2&catpagesize=25&ProductID=28711

Shouldn't the name in the header be two words, Nor Shor? It is seperated in the photos.
posted by Chuck1231 on Apr 30, 2009 at 5:44pm
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