Michigan Theatre

The Michigan Theatre is a historic movie palace in downtown Jackson, Michigan. The theater was built for W. S. Butterfield Theatres, and opened in 1930 as the first air-conditioned building in downtown Jackson. It was designed by Detroit architect Maurice Herman Finkel, who also designed the contemporaneous Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor. W. S. Butterfield Theatres operated the Michigan until 1978, and the theater was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The city of Jackson took ownership of the theater in 1993, and sold it to a nonprofit group that year. Major renovations occurred in 2005 and 2024, retaining the original architectural style.