Hollywood Theater walking tour SOLD OUT

Thursday, August 17, 5:30-7 pm, Hollywood Theater, 2815 Johnson St. NE. The Hollywood Theater, designed by the architectural firm Liebenberg and Kaplan, is one of the most intact Art Deco theaters remaining in Minnesota. It operated as a movie theater from its opening in 1935 until it closed in 1987. The property has been vacant and dark since 1987. A phased project was developed so that the exterior could be stabilized and restored with a multipurpose event center reuse for the main auditorium. This tour will present the key design features of the theater, its main reuse challenges, and the main rehabilitation treatments that were sensitively introduced to the building. As a director at New History, Quentin Collette, PhD, develops strategies to valorize and reuse heritage buildings and sites. He is an active member of American and European preservation and construction history networks and joined the Preserve Minneapolis Board of Directors in 2021. Between 2018 and 2023, he worked with the building owner and the project team to rehabilitate the the theater. For  information and to register: https://www.preserveminneapolis.org/the-lost-gateway-district-of-minneapolis-walking-tour/. $14, presented by Preserve Minneapolis.