The Laurelhurst Theater, Portland

December 14, 2017

Opened in 1923 at 2735 E Burnside St, the Laurelhurst Theater was designed by Walter Tebbetts, the same architect behind Portland’s Hollywood and Oriental Theatres. Originally a 700-seat, single-screen cinema, it was praised as one of the city’s most modern suburban movie houses.

After struggling to compete with multiplexes in the 1980s, the theater was purchased and renovated in 2000. Today, the Laurelhurst is a beloved four-screen cinema pub that shows second-run films and serves pizza and local microbrews, earning it numerous “Best of” awards from local publications.