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Home » Theater Guide » Location » United States » Iowa » Des Moines » Ingersoll Theatre
Also known as Ingersoll Dinner Theatre

Ingersoll Theatre

Des Moines, IA
3711 Ingersoll Avenue
, Des Moines, IA 50312 United States
(map)
Status: Closed
Screens: Single Screen
Style: Art Moderne
Function: Unknown
Seats: 350
Chain: Unknown
Architect: Unknown
Firm: Unknown
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The 1940s-era Streamline Moderne Ingersoll Theatre was most recently home to a dinner theater which has since closed. Further information on the Ingersoll would be appreciated.
Contributed by Bryan Krefft

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This is a photo of the former Ingersoll Theater.

posted by Lost Memory on Jul 9, 2007 at 7:52pm
It's good you shared that photo, Lost Memory. I haven't lived in Des Moines for a long time, but I read somewhere there's talk of the entire block being demolished.

Toward the end of it's run as a cinema, the Ingersoll was an art house--some first-run films, some revivals. I saw a Bergman film or two there--can't recall which. Also "Elvira Madigan" and Joseph Losey's 1975 biopic of Galileo, based on the Bertolt Brecht play.
posted by Calmuse on Sep 26, 2007 at 2:50pm
Here are some additional photos. The dinner theater closed in 2004, and although there has been interest in reuse, nothing has happened yet:
http://tinyurl.com/2vbjzo
http://tinyurl.com/2sy5pc
posted by ken mc on Oct 27, 2007 at 10:29am
Tri-State Theaters announced construction plans in January 1938. The theater opening was planned for July of that year.
posted by ken mc on Dec 19, 2008 at 5:23pm
1983 photo of the Ingersoll Theatre.
http://americanclassicimages.com/Default.aspx?tabid=141&txtSearch=CATAdvancedSearch1%2c15%2c3%2c-1&SortField=ProductName%2cProductName&ProductID=27257
posted by Chuck1231 on Apr 6, 2009 at 10:38pm
Here is another 1983 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/lle7jw
posted by ken mc on Jun 15, 2009 at 10:09pm
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