Shore Theater
18 W. Wisconsin Street,
Grand Marais,
MN
55604
18 W. Wisconsin Street,
Grand Marais,
MN
55604
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The Princess Theater was opened by 1926. It anchored the south side of West Wisconsin Street, the main street of Grand Marais, half a block from the harbor. In its day it was the only theater on the north shore of Lake Superior between Duluth and Thunder Bay–the only theater on a 200-or-so mile stretch of highway 61. By 1932 it had been renamed Wigwam Theater. Still the Wigwam Theater in 1941, by 1943 it had been renamed Shore Theater (it appears in postcards from the time), and stood empty by the mid-1980’s.
The marquee was removed sometime in the 1980’s, and the Streamline style entrance was walled up, but the building still stands, though there have recently been rumors of pending demolition. It was demolished in Summer of 2011 and the site is a vacant lot in 2025.
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According to a cinema daily yearbook from 1945, this theater had 400 seats.
Hi Bryan, sorry about that—I was just posting info from your message to me a few days ago—I must have mixed something up in transmission. 200 seat it is (or was). I do remember it being rather small.
The Shore Theater has been demolished. As of July, 2011, it is a pile of rubble between the Blue Water Cafe and Sivertson Gallery.
There is another Grand Marais theater called the Wigwam Theatre. I cannot find as much detail about it, but all I know is that both the Wigwam and the Shore Theatres were owned by Loren Lang.