Signature Theatres Liberty Theater
120 1st Avenue East,
Kalispell,
MT
59901
120 1st Avenue East,
Kalispell,
MT
59901
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The Liberty Theater is listed in editions of Film Daily Yearbook from at least 1941. It’s location is given as N. Main Street.
Last operated by the Signature Theatres chain, the Liberty Theatre was purchased by the Fresh Life Church (the which also owns the Strand Theater), and is now being used as a ‘siamese sancutury’ – audio and hi-def video is fed from the Strand Theater to the Liberty Theater (except for when the pastor choses to preach from the Liberty Theater, in which case it will happen in reverse).
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Dave Bonan, Mark Uhde
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Here is a September 2005 article regarding the owner of the Liberty Theater. The Liberty no longer appears on the Signature website.
http://tinyurl.com/2kgoyk
Closed.
1988 photo of the Liberty Theatre.
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This was the Liberty in 1984.
LM, have you come across anything stating what is going on with the Liberty? It really looks like a well maintained theatre and it seems to be a shame to let it go.
According to this article, it is becoming a church (with an espresso bar!) View link
Interesting. I guess the church could still rent it out to others for live events, but not sure how that would work with their tax exempt/non for profit status.
Doing so might quell some of the negativity posted in the comments on the Flathead Beacon site. If resistant community members felt it was open to other cultural events.
Taking it off the tax rolls seems the biggest complaint.
The Liberty opened in August of 1925.
Nice photos.
A PDF of a walking tour of Kalispell from the Montana Historical Society has information about the Liberty Theatre. The Liberty was designed by local architect Marion Riffo, and opened on January 24, 1921. The first movie shown was “Humoresque.” The house had an organ, but the text doesn’t say what kind.
The original owner of the Liberty was Marius Anderson. Anderson Theatres eventually operated other houses in Kalispell as well: the Strand Theatre, the Gateway Cinemas, and the Midway Drive-In. The family-owned company was sold in 2000.