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Home » Theater Guide » Location » United States » Missouri » Brookfield » Cedar Cinema
Also known as Degraw Theatre, Lains Theatre

Cedar Cinema

Brookfield, MO
127 East Brooks Street
, Brookfield, MO 64628 United States
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Status: Closed/Demolished
Screens: Single Screen
Style: Spanish Renaissance
Function: Unknown
Seats: 1108
Chain: Unknown
Architect: Carl Boller, Robert O. Boller
Firm: Boller Brothers
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The Cedar Cinema opened in 1905 as the Degraw Theatre seating 1,108. The Degraw was designed by the Boller Bros. A large theatre for a small town. Impressive front facade with a Spanish Revival style.

When the theatre was remodeled in 1958 the entire front was covered over with wavy panels in white on the outside and down the middle with red and white. It was renamed the Lains Cinema with large letter in neon placed in the front red and white panels.

In 1985 the theatre changed hands again and the new owners brutalized the theare. Covered all the Spanish decor in lobby, balcony and main auditorium. Everything was painted a drab burnt red color with white trim. At this time it was renamed again becoming the Cedar Cinema which changed the sign on the front of the building again. Of the 1,108 seats 502 were in the large balcony.

In the beginning the proscenium arch round the stage area was done in gold leaf. The columns that once graced the auditorium walls with the marble effect were all painted over in the gawdy red with wite trim during its last remodel. The theatre quitely closed its doors for good in 1998.

It was converted into a discothque, but had closed and was demolished by April 2005.
Contributed by Charles Van Bibber

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According to this site, the Cedar Cinema was used as a disco and it has been demolished.

posted by Lost Memory on Oct 23, 2008 at 10:30am
Nothing but a grassy lot there now.
posted by Chuck1231 on Jul 17, 2009 at 11:12am
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