Liberty Theatre
305 Central Avenue,
Great Falls,
MT
59404
305 Central Avenue,
Great Falls,
MT
59404
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Old photo’s of the Liberty theater can be seen here.
A Wurlitzer theater organ opus 404 style 260 was installed in the Liberty Theater on 3/30/1921.
This web page mentions in passing (in the caption to a photo of the city’s former Pantages Theater) that the Liberty Theatre in Great Falls was converted to office and retail space in 1978.
Another website has more information about Great Falls' Pantages Theater, which is currently unlisted at Cinema Treasures.
When the Liberty opened it was operated by Jensen Von Herberg, from 1930 on it was operated by some form of Fox Theatres. (Wesco & Intermountain)
This Theater is stylistically similar to Seattle’s Liberty Theatre (1916). The theatre was managed by Jensen and Von Herberg, who also hired Ryan to design Butte’s Rialto Theatre.
Unfortunately the Public Drug Building, site of the vanished Pantages Theater, was seriously gutted by fire in the latter part of 2010 or early part of 2011. Structural assessment has been done and it appears that a rebuilding of the interior is planned—odd that the Set Free Ministry site doesn’t seem to mention it unless I missed something. The noted Public Drug was relocated shortly after the fire.
The Goggle pin is off by a mile (literally) at least and on the wrong side of the Missouri River. Just updated the picture. D. A. Davidson convinced the city of Great Falls to close one block of the street between their building and the Liberty Theater— a plaza/park was installed and the two building were connected via a pedestrian conduit.