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Grace Street Theatre


Photo from the Scott Norwood collection.
934 Grace St
Richmond VA
(804) 828-2020

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Record #12637  
 Opened: October 13, 1935
Capacity: 225 seats
Architect(s): Henry Carl Messerschmidt
Architectural Style(s):
National Register:
Current Organ: none
 Also Known As: Lee, Lee Art

Information for this tour was contributed by Daniel Gibbs.

The Grace Street Theatre opened in 1935 as the Lee Theatre. Its first movie was China Seas, with Clark Gable. It's also notable as the theatre in which Warren Beatty (a Richmond native) saw his first movie. (His sister, Shirley MacLaine, saw HER first at the Bellevue.) It became a porn theatre in the '70s, and was then known as the Lee Art Theatre (apparently, "art" means "naked" in some dictionaries) and closed about 1995. It sat empty for a couple of years, and was finally purchased by VCU (Virginia Commonwealth University) and houses various university events.

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Last featured 2002-12-27. Last edited 2/28/2014.


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