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Home » Theater Guide » Location » United States » New York » Riverhead » Vail-Leavitt Music Hall
Also known as The Music Hall, Lyceum Theater, Mini-Cine, Imperial Restaurant

Vail-Leavitt Music Hall

Riverhead, NY
18 Peconic Avenue
, Riverhead, NY 11901 United States
(map)
631.727.5782
Status: Open/Renovating/Restoring
Screens: Single Screen
Style: Beaux-Arts
Function: Live Theater
Seats: 300
Chain: Independent
Architect: Unknown
Firm: Unknown
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This has only occasionally served as a movie theater in its 125-year history, but that history could hardly be more distinguished: Thomas Edison used the theater for early experiments in sound movies in 1914.

The main theater, upstairs, is an astonishing gem - a miniature opera house designed and embellished by J. W. Flack. It was abandoned and forgotten for decades. In the late 1970s, restoration efforts began, and they've been slowly continuing ever since. From 1984 to 1998 or so, old movies were shown on a small screen in a cramped downstairs space in an effort to raise funds and involve the community in the restoration crusade. The shows included live organ music and exhortations to volunteer.

See website:

http://vail-leavitt.org/history.htm

Related Websites

The Vail-Leavitt Music-Hall (Official)
Contributed by chelydra

YOUR COMMENTS

 
If you love theaters this is a must you will not see this style oftheater in the country anymore.This is a MUST MUST TO SEE plan a trip.................
posted by longislandmovies on Oct 16, 2004 at 8:17pm
Any theater historian,fan,should put this second floor theater on the must see list!
posted by longislandmovies on Jul 24, 2006 at 4:15pm
Vail-Leavitt Music Hall

18 Peconic Ave
Riverhead, NY 11901
(631) 727-5782

posted by Lost Memory on Jul 24, 2006 at 4:36pm
Here is a recent photo of the Vail-Leavitt Music Hall.

posted by Lost Memory on Aug 14, 2007 at 12:44pm
I remember when they had the Mini Cine downstairs and showed some great old films.
posted by Sammie Girl on Feb 4, 2009 at 4:48pm
I never went to the Mini Cine myself, but I do remember looking every week in Newsday for the listings for this theatre, a sample below:

Mini-Cine: Top Hat Fri. Sat. 8

I remember how that single listing just stood out among the multi-listings of the multi-plexes, and how I said to myself "One day, I will go!" Sadly, one day never came for me....
posted by PaulLD1 on Mar 16, 2009 at 12:30pm
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