Minor Theater
The Minor Theater, located in Arcata, California, is one of the oldest buildings in the United States built for feature films that is still open and showing movies.
History
The theater was built by Isaac Minor for a cost of $20,000. Ground was broken for the building of the theater on April 2, 1914, and the project was finished in November of that year. The grand opening was December 3rd, 1914.
This one of the first buildings ever built with reinforced concrete. It was constructed soon after the San Francisco earthquake with safety in mind.
Purchased in 1971 from the Minor family by a group of Humboldt State University graduates[1], notably among them David Philips, one of the founding students of the Humboldt Film Festival.
The facility was purchased by Coming Attractions Theatres in 2006.
The Minor theater has housed the Humboldt Film Festival on multiple years.
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