Lensic Performing Arts Center
211 W. San Francisco Street,
Santa Fe,
NM
87501
211 W. San Francisco Street,
Santa Fe,
NM
87501
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Lensic Performing Arts Center (Official)
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Previously operated by: Gibraltar Enterprises Inc.
Architects: Shary Adams, Robert O. Boller, Craig Hoopes
Firms: Boller Brothers, Brittelle, Ginner & Neuner, Craig Hoopes & Associates
Functions: Concerts, Movies (Film Festivals), Performing Arts
Styles: Atmospheric, Spanish Moorish, Spanish Renaissance
Previous Names: Lensic Theatre
Phone Numbers:
Box Office:
505.988.7050
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Opened June 24, 1931 with Warner Baxter & Janet Gaynor in “Daddy Long Legs” plus a stage show. With 1,000 seats, this Atmospheric style stunner served Santa Fe for 68 years as a movie house that also showcased music and live theatre. It was designed by Robert O. Boller of the Boller Brothers architectural firm. Some remodeling work was carried out in the late-1940’s by architectural firm Brittelle, Ginner & Neuner. Closed in 1999, the Lensic Theatre recieved a $8.2 million restoration after a successful fund raising effort led by Ms. Nancy Zeckendorf of Santa Fe, who serves as Chair of the Board.
Known since 2001, as the Lensic Performing Arts Center, the theatre is a gathering place for the famous artistic community as well as a venue for music, theatre, film, and more.
Contributed by
Craig Hoopes, Dorothy Boller Hall
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Black and white image of the Lensic Theater.
www.flickr.com/photos/lastpictureshow/378953398
Nice work! Your old buddy from Toronto Canada, now living in Manila, Willy M. –
The Lensic needs to restore the vertical it looks to blah without it. brucec
1987 photos of the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe here, here and here.
I first came across the Lensic when I moved to area in 1993. I took in a movie (To Wong Fu with Love – Julie Numar?) just so I could take a look inside. There were rumors about closing it at the time. I haven’t been back to see the renovations, but I’m glad they removated it rather than close it.
This was the place where I saw Star Wars in ‘77. It was my small town equivalent of the Village Theater in Westwood.
June 24th, 1931 grand opening ad in the photo section.
I miss when it was a movie theater. Saw Gary Oldman in “Immortal Beloved” there, Woody Allen’s “Everyone Says I Love You” multiple times, great times
(Evangelo’s, the bar where Jeff Bridges performed in Crazy Heart (and in the forthcoming Granite Mountain) is just across the street to the right of the photo).
Morbid photo of the Lensic in 1968 added.
Somewhere I read or was told that the letters L-e-n-s-i-c are the first letter of the names of the original owner’s children. Spectacular place.