The Booth Theater is a historic movie theater located at 119 W. Myrtle St. in

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. The building was constructed in 1911 and renovated for use as a movie theater in 1926–27. The redesigned theater was the first in Independence to be designed specifically for use as a movie theater. The

Boller Brothers Boller Brothers, often written Boller Bros., was an architectural firm based in Kansas City, Missouri which specialized in theater design in the Midwestern United States during the first half of the 20th century. Carl Heinrich Boller (1868–194 ...

, an architectural firm known for their theater designs, designed the theater in a mixture of the

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and

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styles. The theater showed films until its closure in 1980. . The theater was listed on the

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in 1988.

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Cinema Treasure: Booth Theater
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