History
The theater, originally called the Oak, was built in 1916, but was renamed the Campus Theater in 1935 and remodeled by design firm Liebenberg & Kaplan, who also designed several other area theaters, including the nearby Varsity Theater, located on the other side of campus in Dinkytown. It was designed in Art Deco style, and seated about 400 people, in addition to a meeting area in the basement for film students. The Campus Theater closed as a film theater in 1989 and was briefly used to perform stage shows before it re-opened for films in 1995 under the leadership of Bob Cowgill (now a professor at Augsburg College), Barry Hans and Randy Carpenter. It was then re-christened, this time to its final name the Oak Street Cinema. The theater has been owned and operated by the Minnesota Film Arts since 2003, an organization created when the theater, under Cowgill's leadership, merged with the U Film Society.
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