Fargo Theatre

Address	314 Broadway Fargo, North Dakota United States
Operator	Fargo Theatre Management Corporation Jade Presents (live event booking)
Screens	2
Current use	Cinema and live event venue
Construction
Opened	March 15, 1926 (1926-03-15)
Reopened	March, 1999
Website
fargotheatre.org
Fargo Theatre Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Show map of North Dakota Show map of the United States
Coordinates	46°52′45″N 96°47′16″W / 46.87917°N 96.78778°W / 46.87917; -96.78778
Area	less than one acre
Architect	Buechner & Orth; Liebenberg and Kaplan
Architectural style	Early Commercial, Modern Movement
NRHP reference No.	82001312[1]
Added to NRHP	October 21, 1982

The Fargo Theatre is an art deco movie theater in downtown Fargo, North Dakota, United States. Construction on the building began in the fall of 1925 and the theatre opened on March 15, 1926. It was restored in 1999 to its historic appearance and now is a center for the arts in the Fargo-Moorhead metropolitan area. The Fargo Theatre is home to a 4-manual, 32-rank Wurlitzer Theatre Pipe Organ, known as the "Mighty Wurlitzer," which is owned and maintained by the Red River Theatre Organ Society, a non-profit organization and local chapter of the American Theatre Organ Society.

The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[1]

Events[edit]

Fargo Film Festival[edit]

Since 2001, the Fargo Theatre has served as the main venue of the Fargo Film Festival. The festival has accepted submissions from independent filmmakers from more than 32 American states and 15 countries.^[2]

Festival honorees include Cary Elwes, George A. Romero, John Waters, Janet Leigh, Nia DaCosta, Hugo Weaving, Pedro Pascal, John Hawkes, Neil LaBute, among others.^[3]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

Media related to Fargo Theatre (Fargo, North Dakota) at Wikimedia Commons

• Fargo Theatre website
• Fargo Theatre at CinemaTreasures.org