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Home » Theater Guide » Location » United States » Michigan » Detroit » Columbia Theatre

Columbia Theatre

Detroit, MI
50 Monroe Street
, Detroit, MI, United States
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Status: Closed/Demolished
Screens: Single Screen
Style: Unknown
Function: Unknown
Seats: 1006
Chain: Unknown
Architect: C. Howard Crane
Firm: Unknown
Columbia Theatre
Vintage photograph of the Columbia Theatre, with the old Hotel Frontenac at right
Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress
Opened by John Kunsky in 1911 as his first true movie house in Detroit, after several earlier nickelodeons, including the nearby Bijou (opened as the Cent Odeon), the C. Howard Crane designed Columbia could seat over 1000, and was located on Monroe Street, which was the city's first entertainment district prior to being displaced by Grand Circus Park in the late Teens and early Twenties.

The Columbia contained a pipe organ and has its own house orchestra in its early decades of operation.

It was closed in 1956 and has long since been demolished.
Contributed by Bryan Krefft

YOUR COMMENTS

 
I recently seen another photo of this theatre, the National is located to the left right outside the picture. Today it is an empty field across the street from Hard Rock Cafe Detroit.
posted by SNWEB.ORG on Dec 20, 2003 at 2:01pm
A Hillgreen-Lane theater organ opus 278 size 2/18 was installed in the Columbia Theater in 1911. Theater was located at 50 Monroe Street and cost was $2,700.

posted by Lost Memory on Aug 29, 2007 at 1:35pm
Another photo of the Columbia Theater can be seen here.

posted by Lost Memory on Sep 15, 2007 at 7:39pm
The Hillgreen-Lane theater organ was replaced in 1927 by a Wurlitzer theater organ opus 1701 style 100 special.

posted by Lost Memory on Jan 16, 2008 at 5:08pm
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