Rialto Theatre
217 N. 4th Street,
Bismarck,
ND
58501
217 N. 4th Street,
Bismarck,
ND
58501
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The Grand theatre opened on October 6th, 1913. It reopened as the Rialto theatre on December 16th, 1921. Grand opening ads in the photo section.
Status should be closed/demolished.
it was originally located on the east side of fourth between Broadway & Thayer. The building was built in 1915 including the theater which shared the building with a photo studio next door and the Elks Lodge upstairs. The theater was closed sometime before 1927 aand was later taken over by a furniture store. That whole side of the block was leveled for a federal complex in the 1970’s.
Did you see the “Hinckley” plate at the top of the building? I would imagine that this building pre-existed the theater. That early they were probably weren’t building too many houses just for film exhibition. Weren’t they mostly storefronts around then?