Michigan Theater (Ann Arbor)

Opened in 1928, Ann Arbor’s Michigan Theater is one of the nation’s most famous movie palaces. Still regularly showing films, the cinema features a 1,600-seat auditorium and 1927 Barton pipe organ. The building, which was designed by Detroit architect Maurice Finkel, is near the University of Michigan campus. For more information, visit Wikipedia.

Its sister cinema, the nearby State Theater, which opened in 1942, sadly lost most of its original 1,900-seat auditorium to retail space (now a Target) in 1989. However, the balcony has been converted into four small cinemas, which still show films.

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