Coolidge Theater (Brookline, Massachusetts)

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290 Harvard Street
Brookline, MA 02446
(617) 734-2501
coolidge.org/

Converted in 1933 as an art deco movie house from a 1906 Universalist church in the Boston suburb of Brookline, the Coolidge Corner has been showing movies for over seventy years.

New management shifted the Coolidge Corner's schedule from first run films in 1977 as the theater became a showcase for art house and foreign films.

In an effort to increase profits, the balcony was closed off and converted into a second screen. Despite the renovation, the theater could no longer turn an adequate profit and was put up for sale and nearly demolished.

In 1989, the Coolidge Comer Theatre Foundation bought the theater and now houses a steady stream of art house, second run films and classic movies. A 45-seat video screening room was added in 2000. One more small video screening room has since been added bringing the total screen count to four.

The Coolidge is the only currently operating Art Deco theater in the Boston area. www.coolidge.org/