Orchestration Hall
This building was located at 210 Washington Ave. So. It was built in 1889.
ORCHESTRATION HALL opened its door in 1889.
JUMBO THEATER: 1890 – 1894. This was apparently a den of sin, as the police went about looking for “boys” in the audience, and a tourist somehow lost $50 while looking around backstage
CENTRAL GARDEN: On May 3, 1984,its interior was demolished in a fire that started in the adjoining Reed Building.
NEW JUMBO: 1894 – 1896
COLUMBIA THEATRE: 1896
EMPIRE THEATER: 1903
Randolph Edgar reported that this was the first place in Minneapolis where motion pictures were shown. These 20 minute shorts were shown at the end of the regular performance, and were brought over from the Orpheum Music Hall in St. Paul where they had been shown earlier in the evening