Cary Theater
122 E. Chatham Street,
Cary,
NC
27511
122 E. Chatham Street,
Cary,
NC
27511
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The Cary Theater was the city’s first indoor motion picture theater and appears to have opened sometime in the 1940’s. After its closing as a movie theater, it was used as a clothing store, as a recording studio, and as an auto parts store.
The City of Cary plans to incorporate the former theater into a new community arts center, with new construction immediately adjacent to and also within the theater. The new facility, which will serve a variety of cultural and performing arts functions, will have flexible seating, a balcony, and projection facilities. A new marquee will be of a design reflective of the era of the original theater’s construction.
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Christopher Walczak
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This webpage describes the plans for the new Cary arts complex, including an architectural drawing of the new facility showing the former Cary Theater as the right-hand part of the building. There is also a photo of the building when it was an auto parts store. There is also this drawing of what the new marquee might look like.
A video about the construction project that includes some historical photos of the Cary Theater can be seen here.
According to one of the articles about the Cary Theater from the December 2,2012 edition of the Raleigh Sunday News and Observer:
It states that the Cary Theater opened somewhere around 1941 and closed in 1960 when the theater was converted into a clothing store and later on an Auto Parts store.