Opened in 1941, and located on Market Street, it is one of the few single-screen Art Deco movie houses in the country still in operation, and forms part of Lewisburg Historic District.

[1] It is now owned by Bucknell University and leased to The Campus Theatre Ltd.[2] The theater, designed by David Supowitz, was founded by the Steifel brothers (Oscar, Harold, Moritz (Morris) and Barney), Russian immigrants who ran an empire across New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

[3] Its opening night was January 17, 1941, when it showed the Jack Benny and Fred Allen musical comedy Love Thy Neighbor.

[3] In 2001, Bucknell University film and media studies professor Eric Faden purchased[4] the theater from Jacquie Steifel, Harold's widow,[3] and founded Campus Theatre Ltd. as a nonprofit organization.

[4] The theater underwent a $2.5 million renovation in 2011, including the addition of the Bucknell Bison logo on its facade.