Riverview Theater
The Riverview's lit marquee in 2011 | |
| Address | 3800 42nd Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55406 |
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| Coordinates | 44°56′03″N 93°12′47″W / 44.934051°N 93.21316°W |
| Type | Indoor movie theater |
| Seating type | Stadium |
| Capacity | >700 |
| Construction | |
| Built | 1948 |
| Opened | December 30, 1948 |
| Renovated | 1956 |
| Architect | Liebenberg and Kaplan |
| Website | |
| riverviewtheater.com | |
The Riverview Theater is a cinema in the Howe neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Designed by Liebenberg and Kaplan, the theater was built by theater owners Bill and Sidney Volk in 1948. After building a subsequent theater in a new ultramodern style, the Volks returned to the Riverview in 1956 and had its lobby area heavily renovated and updated. The Riverview remains one of several surviving single-screen cinemas in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area and typically showed second-run films until the COVID-19 pandemic, when it switched to showing first-run movies. Since the early 2000s, it has been consistently recognized by City Pages as one of the best movie theaters in the area.