Lee Theatre

3162 Williamson Road,
Roanoke, VA 24012

Unfavorite No one has favorited this theater yet

Showing 7 comments

dallasmovietheaters
dallasmovietheaters on February 17, 2023 at 7:48 pm

Appears to have closed after the March 15, 1985 double feature of Julia Parton in “Pleasure Zone” and Sharon Thorpe in “Overnight Sensation.”

rivest266
rivest266 on February 15, 2023 at 7:21 pm

and reopened by new owners in 1980 who showed adult movies until its listings ended (and presumed closed) in 1985.

rivest266
rivest266 on February 14, 2023 at 5:38 pm

Closed December 23rd, 1979 by Consolidated Theatres. Lee Theatre closingLee Theatre closing 24 Dec 1979, Mon Roanoke Times and World-News (Roanoke, Virginia) Newspapers.com

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on September 29, 2021 at 9:44 pm

A comment by architect George A. Eheling in the September 22, 1948 issue of The Exhibitor says that he designed the Lee Theatre in Roanoke. It’s likely that Eubank & Caldwell acted as supervising architects for Eheling, whose office was in Cleveland, Ohio.

Also, note the correct address and current use for the Lee’s building in my previous comment.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on July 5, 2019 at 9:03 pm

The correct address of the Lee Theatre is 3162 Williamson Road, at the southeast corner of Haffen Street. The building was not demolished, but converted for offices on the ground floor with apartments on a new second floor.

Texas2step
Texas2step on July 5, 2019 at 8:18 pm

This one opened on October 3, 1941 with Bette Davis in “The Little Foxes”.

ghamilton
ghamilton on July 4, 2009 at 9:05 am

I mentioned this theater on another Roanoke listing years ago.The building still looks good,but was LONG ago converted to office space.Doesn’t really look like a theater,per se,unlike the Salem Theater.The one movie I remeber seeing there was the semi-grim Swedish Elvira Madigan.