Unique Theater

It was built in the Renaissance Revival style, and situated between the Hennepin Center for the Arts and the West Hotel.

The hotel catered to a family audience with daily performances priced at ten or twenty cents.

[1] The theatre was used as a morgue after the West Hotel caught on fire next door.

[3] The theatre was torn down in 1943 after being called a "menace to the public" due to poor structural integrity.

[4] (This was planned to be occupied by part of a Minnesota Shubert Performing Arts and Education Center,[5] which was realized near the end of that century—though that eventual result entailed construction of a new building, which was—years later, without having opened to the public—raised from its foundation, and moved several blocks away, by extraordinary measures.