Cinema Art
289 River Street,
Troy,
NY
12180
289 River Street,
Troy,
NY
12180
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The American Theatre opened as a movie house in downtown Troy in the early 1920’s. It had a twin, the State (Rose) Theatre on 4th Street which was torn down in the 1960’s for a parking lot.
The American Theatre was operated by the Fabian Theaters chain in the 1940’s. It converted over to adult films in the early-1970’s, and showed them until March 2006 when the theatre was raided by the police and closed down. The theatre lobby and auditorium are still very original.
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Joe Masher
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This is a March 15, 2007 article about the Cinema Art.
This theater is closed, and the marquee has been removed from the building. It’s currently for sale. It would make a GREAT art house, and could easily be divided into two or three screens.
I was in Troy today on business. After I completed my scheduled tasks for the day I walked around downtown Troy for about two hours taking pictures of old buildings being given new life.
I wandered around taking pictures until I got hungry, just barely a block from the cafe I was considering, were the telltale steel remnants of a marquee and the curved entry of a movie house.
The building has almost totally been stripped of architectural importance, save the leaf pendant on the very tip of the building.
Here are the pictures:
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Vintage ads for the Cinema Art can be found here:
http://plantweed.blogspot.com/search?q=cinema+art
Any updates on the future of the Cinema Art?
The theater is advertising “talking sound pictures” in this photo, which probably dates it around 1928:
http://tinyurl.com/27zapd
Is the original photo as blurry as the photos that your posting, or is it the method that your using to capture these photos causing the problem? I’ve seen some of these photos on the web in books that are for sale. Those photos are much sharper.
Still closed. See my photos of the building http://www.cinematour.com/tour/us/7874.html
Here are some night photos from 1983:
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Saw this theatre while on a bike trip 2 weeks ago. Still closed of course and really hard to get around the back to see the building since it’s right over the railroad tracks.