The theatre was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

[1] It is a 26-by-76-foot (7.9 m × 23.2 m) frame building, stuccoed, with 187 seats.

[2] It was unusual for its time, as it was specifically designed for showing "motion pictures".

It was a project of professional baseball player Guy Johnson (1891-1971), who moved to Marmarth and built the theatre in 1914.

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