Paradise Center for the Arts
321 Central Avenue North,
Faribault,
MN
55021
321 Central Avenue North,
Faribault,
MN
55021
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Opened as the Paradise Theatre in 1929 with 900 seats, it was in an Atmospheric style, and has a brief mention in Ben Hall’s book, “The Best Remaining Seats”.
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The Paradise theater has been saved by the Faribault Art Center in Partneship with the Merlin Players and Faribault Area Community Theater and is going to be renovated into a Community Art Center with a gallery and 300+ seat theater for both live performances and independent film showings. If anyone can be of any assistance in locating seats and giving us some advice on how to get the stars and clouds working again it would be greatly appreciated. Oh, and we can always use money too. If you would like more info I can be reached at
Theatre opened in 1929 with 900 seats and the architects were Liebenberg and Kaplan.
We are holding a volunteer event January 27th 2007 from 8am – noon at the historic Paradise Theater in downtown Faribault. This is a great opportunity to be a part of this renovation and see all the changes that have been made! If you’re interested, contact me at or call the Paradise Center for the Arts at 507-332-7372 to get more information.
I visited the theatre yesterday. They are planning to open in October.
They seem to be coming along nicely in auditorium but the marquee is not up yet.
It’s going to be a great little cinema.
Theatre has its grand re-opening on 20 October.
We are open! First musical performance October 27, 2007. First play: December 2007. First movie: January 26, 2008. www.paradisecenterforthearts.org
Interesting that the exterior photo of the Paradise on their website shows a vertical sign with the name “Paramount.” There’s no mention of the theatre ever having been called the Paramount. I wonder if they used the wrong photo?
I was lucky enough to tour the theater when it was still running, ran down an hour from Minneapolis. The owner was a very nice gentleman who let me roam the theater freely (while he went to lunch somewhere) for over an hour and a half. It is beautiful inside. The nice thing about the trip is since he was not long away from closing, he showed me about 14 boxes and asked if I wanted them. I arranged for transferring them home and when I started opening them,….lobby card sets from movies like Sound of Music and Greatest Story ever told, 6 boxes full of pressbooks (one for each studio) and the others were one sheets and Boxoffice magazines from the 1940’s and 1950’s.They were not in the basement so were in good shape. Guess my day was very lucky, the final owner of this theater as a movie house was one of the nicest guys I had ever met (and I would still say that had he given me nothing). Here’s a link to a picture: View link
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Here is a nice 2009 photo of the Paradise.
Well, based on the photo link provided by Lost Memory, the photo on the theatre’s web site is indeed that of the Paradise. However, the photo on theatre’s website does show a vertical with the name Paramount. So it must have been known as the Paramount early in its life.