State Theatre
1118 Elm Street,
Manchester,
NH
03101
1118 Elm Street,
Manchester,
NH
03101
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This Art Deco gem in downtown Manchester opened in 1929.
The State Theatre has since been demolished.
Contributed by
Bryan Krefft
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Someone had the forethought to save a chunk of this theater… a massive head which is now on the campus of St. Anselm college, in nearby Goffstown NH. A rough replica of the marquee is in the Manchester Historic Society’s new millyard Museum. Manchester misses this one.
This might be the head from the facade of the State which Mr. Elwood mentions in his comment above. Photograph from the Library of Congress.
The State Theatre was located at 1118 Elm Street and it seated 2130 people.
Here is a video discussing the history of the State theater from it’s 1929 opening to it’s 1978 demolition. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrmp71Rsn-g
Architect was John Eberson.
3,300 people saw it on a midweek opening day in 1938: Boxoffice
In the 1942-43 Motion Picture Almanac, the State in Manchester is listed as part of the Shea Circuit, run by Shea-Chain Inc & Affiliates of 1540 Broadway in New York City. Other Manchester NH theaters run by Shea at that time were the Palace, Strand, Crown and the Vitaphone. Shea also ran 2 theaters in Nashua.