Garland Theater, Movie theater in Garland District, Spokane, USA

The Garland Theater is a single-screen cinema in Spokane's Garland District with 630 seats, built in 1945 in the Streamline Moderne style with a reinforced concrete frame and terra cotta, brick, and tile exterior. An interior connection links the auditorium to the Bon Bon cocktail bar in the same building.

The cinema opened in 1945 as a Streamline Moderne building during America's post-war reconstruction era, when optimism shaped architectural design. Its architectural style and original details from this period have been preserved, telling the story of design from that era.

The Garland Theater opened on November 22, 1945, showing It's a Pleasure and Double Exposure, and became a discount theater in 1988. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013, the same year more than $350,000 of renovation work replaced the seats and projector and reduced capacity to meet ADA requirements.

The cinema operates with modern projection equipment and affordable ticket prices, making film viewing accessible to different budgets. Nearby access to bars and dining options makes it easy to spend time before or after your film.

The building still preserves original germicidal lamps from its 1945 construction, a detail that shows how safety and cleanliness were understood at that time. These functioning safety features are a rare example of post-war technology rarely found in modern cinemas.