Theatre
204 N. 3rd Street,
Beresford,
SD
57004
204 N. 3rd Street,
Beresford,
SD
57004
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One of the other theaters may have been an old wooden GAR hall/Opera House located to the rear of this building, facing 2nd St. Still there in 1917, but long ago demolished. It would have extended under some of the gray metal building on Hemlock.
Another possible, and even likely, name for this house is provided by the April 1, 1916 issue of Moving Picture World: “Beresford, S. D.-O. J. Dyvig of Harrisburg has purchased the Empress theater from Julius Johannsen.” That reference couldn’t have been to the Empress (later the Vogue) at 109 N. Third Street, as that location was still occupied by a clothing store on the 1917 Sanborn map
Whatever name, if any, this theater had in 1914-15, there’s a decent chance that by 1916 it was the first location of the Empress. O. J. Dyvig was still operating the Empress in 1918, though, wherever it was by then, as he and the house are mentioned in the May 18 MPW that year.