The Lindell Theatre presented a two-story Renaissance Revival front of light brick with elaborate terra-cotta ornament. Engaged Corinthian pilasters divided the upper facade into bays of tall round-arched windows set between oval oculus medallions wreathed in garlands, with cartouche panels in the spandrels. A deep bracketed cornice carried a frieze of paterae and urn cresting along the roofline. A full-width cantilevered canopy sheltered the ground-floor entrances and shopfronts, and a vertical LINDELL THEATRE blade sign rose above the marquee.
The Lindell Theatre opened on August 15, 1914, built for the Great Northern Amusement Company to the design of the local firm Kennerly & Steigemeyer, with 1,650 seats. It ran as a neighborhood movie house on North Grand Boulevard, showing feature pictures and live acts, and passed through a series of operators including Famous Players, the St. Louis Amusement Company, and William Goldman Theatres. On the night of May 7-8, 1961, after nearly five inches of rain, its 50-foot marquee collapsed; the theatre closed and was demolished in early 1962.
