Lyric Theatre

250 High Street,
Mineral Point, WI 53565

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The early movies came to Mineral Point in the late-1900’s. The Lyric Theatre was opened in 1908 not only offered movies, but also boasted a new piano and curtain. The Lyric Theatre advertised that it offered a new movie every night.

The theatre was closed in 1911. A hardware store now occupies site.

Contributed by Jack Franklin

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dallasmovietheaters
dallasmovietheaters on October 12, 2020 at 4:39 am

The Lyric Theatre opened across the street from the Mystic Theatre in 1908 less than a year after the Mystic had launched. It debuted as a motion picture theater, the town’s first theatre on a ground floor. The Lyric closed in 1911. The Grand Theatre then was opened in 1911 by J.M Peter, taken on by city merchants who closed it closed in February of 1915 when the city-run Community Theatre opened.

The town would return to a two movie theatre town when the remodeled Mystic Theatre re-opened months later as the World Theatre. Montgomery Terrill took on the 248-250 High Steet venue on July 1, 1916 relaunching it as the Grand Theatre plying Paramount films bringing Mineral Point to a three-theatre town. He closed it on January 13, 1917. The town would return to three theatre operation for a four-plus year period from 1918 to 1923 when the Opie turned Palace Theatre opened.

As for the building at High Street formerly housing a theater, B.H. Williams took over the space converting it to the Amusement Place featuring a shooting gallery and box ball that closed in 1920. O. Vivian took on the building converting it to a Studebaker, Nash, and Overland car dealership in 1921. It later was a hardware store.

robboehm
robboehm on October 20, 2020 at 1:04 pm

Building recently sold for $92,500.

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