Modern Federal · Theaters

The long-closed and empty (as of 2021) Lyric Theater, which opened as a one-screen movie theater in 1909 in Ellendale, a small town near the South Dakota border in the southeastern corner of North Dakota

Ellendale · 1850–1939

The long-closed and empty (as of 2021) Lyric Theater, which opened as a one-screen movie theater in 1909 in Ellendale, a small town near the South Dakota border in the southeastern corner of North Dakota, Ellendale, 1850–1939
The long-closed and empty (as of 2021) Lyric Theater, which opened as a one-screen movie theater in 1909 in Ellendale, a small town near the South Dakota border in the southeastern corner of North Dakota, Ellendale, 1850–1939. Theaters — Modern Federal Architecture, from the Library of Congress record.

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