Iowa's Historic Movie Theatre Survey

The State Historic Preservation Office is conducting a statewide survey of movie theatres in Iowa and we need your help! We have dozens of movie theatres in our inventory but for many of these buildings, we have sketchy or out of date information at best. We also believe that there are movie theatres in the state we don’t know about and which still need to be recorded.  The scope of this survey includes movie theatres and drive-in theatres up to c. 1970.

You are critical to the success of this project!  We are asking citizens around the state to help us identify these properties by completing an abbreviated inventory form which is linked below.

There are a couple ways you can send the inventory form to us:

1. fill out the form by hand or on the computer and attach photographic prints (color or black and white images are okay) and mail to the address at the bottom of the form;
   OR
2. complete the form on your computer, insert digital images and return by email as an attachment to paula.mohr@iowa.gov.

We ask that you return the completed inventory form to us as soon as possible and our goal is to have forms completed by the end of the year. Please contact Paula Mohr at (515) 281-6826 if you have questions or need more information.

Thank you for helping us preserve this important aspect of Iowa’s history!

Theater Survey Form 2007

Theater Survey Form 2007