Cornell Theatre
214 Main Street,
Cornell,
WI
54732
214 Main Street,
Cornell,
WI
54732
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This is a photo of the Cornell Theater. Its an odd looking building and I can’t tell if it dates back to the 1940s.
Lost, I saw that picture too, and thought it looked a little odd myself. It almost looks like a house that had an adobe-style theater facade tacked on to the front of it.
Someone posted this review of the Cornell Theater. “…renovated in the last few years”. That could explain why it looks like two different buildings were joined together. I haven’t been able to find anything on the Gem Theater so far, but I did find a Gilman Theater in Gilman, Wisconsin. Do you feel like adding another theater? :)
Gilman Theater, now a church.
Nice find, Lost, I don’t mind adding that one.
According to the City of Cornell website, “The theatre is closed until further notice”. Google’s “Showtimes for Cornell, WI” link currently brings up only the Micon Cinemas in Chippewa Falls. Maybe they close the Cornell down during the sort of weather they’re having tonight:
I certainly wouldn’t want to go out to a move on a night like that.On the front page of the city’s website there’s a small historic photo of the main street, and most of the buildings look like they have had false fronts in the past, so the one on the theatre is not a rarity for the town. The white clapboard building behind the plastered front is typical of structures in old lumbering towns such as Cornell all the way from New England to the Pacific Northwest.
Incidentally, the town is named for Ezra Cornell, founder of Cornell University, who had extensive holdings in the area.
Still nothing playing at the Cornell. Looks like this one is closed.
Another assumption?
Thanks, Joe Vogel, for connecting the theater’s (and town’s) name to the founder of Cornell U. In these deep dark days when the Great “D” word looms on the financial horizon, it’s worth noting that—after amassing a fortune from supplying the telegraph industry with lumber for poles and using much of his income to establish the university in upstate NY—Ezra Cornell lost his fortune by investing in wacky initiatives and died nearly penniless.
I live about 5 miles south of Cornell. The theater was closed for a few years, then opened last summer. It closed again in the fall, and hasn’t opened since. I have been thinking about purchasing and renovating it (it’s pretty run down). I am looking for information on how to find out who owns it, and how to get rights and cost of running old releases. Previously, the theater ran new releases, but since we are so close to larger cities with larger theaters, there is no way it can compete – hence, why it hasn’t stayed open for very long in the past.
On the Yelp Business Review site it states that the Cornell Theatre is closed.