[1] It is a flat-roofed one-story masonry movie theater, built in a simplified Moderne style – one of the few buildings in the area to feature this type of architecture.

[3] In 1940, the building was commissioned by Mary Hayes Davis, a newspaper publisher and businesswoman who operated a chain of movie theaters in south Florida and the Lake Okeechobee region.

[3] Davis had opened the first Dixie Crystal Theatre at the corner of Sugarland Highway and Central Avenue in 1934.

[3] The Clewiston Theater was integrated peacefully on July 20, 1964, when five African American youths attended an evening show there for the first time.

[7] The theater closed briefly in 2011, but soon reopened, featuring live bands, first-run movies, and independent films.