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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 19/06/2026 22:34:00

Opened on 25 November 1920 as a vaudeville and silent-movie emporium, the Garden Theater anchored North High Street just south of Fifth Avenue and quickly became one of the premier entertainment spots north of downtown Columbus. For its first decades it was a neighbourhood picture house, at one point renamed the Lincoln, drawing crowds to the heart of what is now the Short North. The theatre's fortunes turned sharply in the second half of the century. After its longtime owner died in the 1960s,...