The Minor Theater, located at 1015 H Street in Arcata, California, is one of the oldest buildings in the United States built for feature films that is still open and showing movies. It was the first building in Humboldt County to be built as a "true movie theater."
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... 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, built in reinforced concrete for structural safety and fire-resistance ... It was purchased in 1971 from the Minor family by a group of Humboldt State University graduates, notable among them David Philips, one of the founding students of the Humboldt Film Festival ...
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