Forest Theatre
225 S. White Street,
Wake Forest,
NC
27587
225 S. White Street,
Wake Forest,
NC
27587
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Previous Names: Castle Theatre
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The Castle Theatre was opened in 1927. Ut was renamed Forest Theatre in 1940. This was the larger of the three theatres in Wake Forest and the second of the two theatres operated by Howell Theatres. Seating was listed at 600 seats. The Forest Theatre was gutted by fire on July 1, 1966.
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Wake Forest, by Jennifer Smart, says that the Forest Theatre was on South White Street. There’s a photo (Google Books preview.) White Street is confirmed as the theater’s location by this page at the Wake Forest Fire Department’s web site, which says that the Forest Theatre was gutted by a fire on July 1, 1966.
This page from the Wake Forest Gazette says that the town has been without a movie theater since the Forest burned. It also says that the house opened as the Castle Theatre in 1927, and was renamed Forest Theatre in 1940.
The Gazette article with the information is no longer available online, but it said that the Forest Theatre opened in 1927 as the Castle Theatre and was renamed Forest Theatre in 1940, so we can delete the redundant page for the Castle Theatre. The Forest operated until it was gutted by a fire in July, 1966. The theater’s site is now occupied by part of a bank. The bank uses the address 231 S. White Street, but the theater’s number was probably a bit lower, perhaps 225 S. White.