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The Bijou Theatre Building is located in
Marinette, Wisconsin Marinette is a city in and the county seat of Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States. It is located on the south bank of the Menominee River, at its mouth at Green Bay, part of Lake Michigan; to the north is Stephenson Island, part of the ...
, USA. It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1993.


History

The building was constructed for Frank Lauerman to be both a
vaudeville Vaudeville (; ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment born in France at the end of the 19th century. A vaudeville was originally a comedy without psychological or moral intentions, based on a comical situation: a dramatic composition ...
theater and a retail store. It was later transformed into a
movie theater A movie theater (American English), cinema (British English), or cinema hall ( Indian English), also known as a movie house, picture house, the movies, the pictures, picture theater, the silver screen, the big screen, or simply theater is a ...
.


References

Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin Cinemas and movie theaters in Wisconsin Theatres on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin Former theatres in the United States Buildings and structures in Marinette County, Wisconsin Neoclassical architecture in Wisconsin Theatres completed in 1905 National Register of Historic Places in Marinette County, Wisconsin 1905 establishments in Wisconsin {{Wisconsin-NRHP-stub