The Granada Theater opened in 1928 and was touted as the most elaborate theater ever constructed outside Minneapolis's loop district. One of the first movie theaters designed by local architects Jack Liebenberg and Seeman Kaplan, it helped cement their reputation as the region's leading theater designers. Named after Granada, Spain, it was an atmospheric theater intended to make moviegoers feel as if they were outdoors in a romantic Spanish garden. Its exterior was designed in the Spanish Churrigueresque Revival style, and the auditorium featured an animated moon, stars, and drifting clouds that moved across the ceiling over the course of an evening. In 1954, the theater was remodeled and renamed the Suburban World Theater, and in 1991 it received local historic designation.