I am adding a page for Theatre Delight at 220 Locust Street.
That building is still standing across the street from where the Rex/Hudson Theatre was.
Additional history below:
“Owner of the theater was Clarence Mickelson (1873-1954), who had come to Hudson in 1917 and bought the existing movie house—Theatre Delight (Knoke’s Chocolates and Nuts is there today). To improve his business, Mickelson built the new building at 205 Locust Street.”
“The first film to be shown in the new movie house featured Mary Pickford in her newest hit, “The Backdoor.” In September of 1927, a pipe organ, played by the owner’s daughter Helen Mickelson, was installed at the theater to provide music for the silent films. Sound movies were introduced in 1930, opening with the Will Rogers’ hit “So this is London.”
“After Mickelson sold the Rex in 1938, the name was changed to Hudson Theatre, and a series of owners operated the movie house, including J.G. Heywood, Arthur and Ethel Peterson, Donald Buchholz, and Stephen O’Connell.”
(Historic Hudson column by Willis Miller. Hudson Star-Observer. April 29, 1993)
Per the below portion from the Beaver County Times, Friday, April 6, 1973, the New Colonial was not demolished, but remodeled into the Granada Theatre in 1928.
“The theater building was erected in 1911 as the Colonial Theatre. It became the New Colonial in 1917. Then in 1928 the theater underwent extensive remodeling in a Spanish Moresque style that became the Granada Theatre. The auditorium contained 1,600 seats."
The full 1973 article is over on the Granada’s CT page.
Additional history credit Beaver County Times, Friday, April 6, 1973.
(2 Former names need to be added to CT)
Below history is renovation plans announced in 1973.
“The theater building was erected in 1911 as the Colonial Theatre. It became the New Colonial in 1917. Then in 1928 the theater underwent extensive remodeling in a Spanish Moresque style that became the Granada Theatre. The auditorium contained 1,600 seats.
The Granada showed its final movie on November 30 1960. The building eventually met the wrecking ball in April 2010 and now a medical center sits on the site."
“ A project to renovate the vacant Granada Theatre in Beaver Falls was unveiled. The building located at 1121 Seventh Avenue would be converted into an indoor shopping complex at a cost of $250,000.
In the Beaver County Times published Friday, April 6, 1973 Chi-Mar Inc., owners of the building, stated that remodeling would begin immediately and be completed by late September 1973. The climate controlled mini-mall featured a tobacco shop, photo and camera shop, carpet store, decorator shop, bakery, bath boutique, uniform shop, fabric shop, infant shop, ladies and men’s wear shop, and jewelry store. A restaurant seating 70 diners was planned in the basement.
A 12-foot wide corridor extending down the mall lead to two entrances for easy access to municipal parking lots. The exterior of the building was professionally washed and cleaned with floodlighting added. Some 18,000 cubic feet of fill was required to level the sloping floor of the theatre."
Additional timeline history credit Kenosha History Center.
“Ground was broken on what was to be called the Butterfly Theatre in September 1916 (not to be confused with the older Butterfly in Milwaukee, which was on the site of the extant Warner Grand). Columbia Hall was demolished to make the room. I don’t know if we have a photo of that building, nor many details about it. It existed at least by the 1880s, and was a standard hall. Indoor baseball, concerts, dances, speeches, plays, weddings… Sometimes an older building is converted into a new building, but this is not the case. On 2 September 1916, the Kenosha News reported that "This morning workmen laid the pick an axe to old Columbia Hall and it is to be leveled…”
The Butterfly Theatre was to be the finest theater in the city at that point, costing Ernst Klinkert of Racine and Kenosha’s Charles Pacini a total of $45,000. Pacini would be the operator with a long term lease. At construction, with George Lindemann as general contractor and Tully as the masonry contractor, it was claimed the theater would seat 1000 people but by the time it opened that dropped to 650. Charles O. Augustine, a Kenosha-based architect designed the building and its “sanitary” features: the ventilation was powerful enough to completely cycle the air in the theater every six minutes, it had separate flush toilets for gentlemen and ladies, floors that could be sanitized (I assume tile), a pipe organ, and space for an 14 piece orchestra.
Pacini already operated the Majestic on 6th Ave downtown (which would be remodeled after the Butterfly opened) and the Cozy Theatre on 7th Ave a block south of the Butterfly and closed up the Cozy and transferred its equipment to the new digs.
It opened 17 March 1917 to showings of Chaplin’s “Easy Street,” and a Helen Rosson drama called “The Undertow.” “Easy Street” is a classic, set a new standard for Chaplin comedic stunts. I am totally unfamiliar with “The Undertow;” it has a convoluted summary but it was a 5 reeler, so as many as 75 minutes long, and had time to spin a long yarn.
Pacini, as we all know, was murdered in August 1920. He owned the Majestic, Butterfly, and New Strand theatres and had the lease on the land of the Eichelman Hotel (where the Schwartz Building is today) and was planning a skyscraper with a huge theater inside. Within two years, the Butterfly would be a Collins theater, which also controlled the Burke and Virginian. The Pacini estate was complicated, apparently, and his heirs also said they wanted to make a go of it. But Collins by 1922.
At this point, I am going to stop trying to keep track of owners.
In 1929, the theater had a Movietone system installed to allow for talkies. Not long after, it closed. It’s mentioned into February 1930, and then vanishes for two years. And in August 1932, the theater reopened after a major redecoration, which included a new large screen instead of a small one. It shows the quality of reporting in “the good old days” that the newspaper didn’t bother looking when it closed but says it had been closed “three or four years.” Actually, only about two and a half.
In early 1941, it was redecorated again and reopened in May of that year as the Hollywood. And the photo was taken the following July.
The search terms “hollywood theater” or “hollywood theatre” in newspapers dot com yields too many durned results to sift through, as the site has a generous interpretation of searches. So let’s skip to 1952, in April the last listing of the films showing was posted: two East Side Kids films “The Smart Alecks” and “The Wise Guy.” The East Side Kids were a low budget 1940s copy of the successful 1930s Dead End Kids. The most well known Dead End Kids film was “Angels with Dirty Faces,” which was spoofed as nested films in “Home Alone” and “Home Alone 2”. Keep the change, ya filthy animal. The East Side Kids, however, were not successful. But they were retooled into The Bowery Boys, which were huge. The last East Side Kids movie premiered in 1945, the two showing at the Hollywood were from 1942: the Hollywood showing them in 1952 is sign of its decline.
It managed to reopen in October 1953, showing Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotten in “Niagara.” That’s a good movie, it was a top film of the year so Hollywood is back? It was paired with “Invaders from Mars,” which isn’t as bad as it sounds, the camera work defies its genre, it performed well and was reviewed well and is still reviewed well, and is a massively significant film because Stephen Spielberg and Joe Dante and John Landis and Martin Scorsese all saw it as children and got interested in making movies.
But didn’t last.
In 1955, the Hollywood became home to the Kenosha Missionary Baptist Church, and in 1959 they moved out to become the Temple Baptist Church on 47th Ave and 52nd St.
In 1963, the Auxiliary of the Polish Legion of American Veterans began raising funds to convert the theater into a clubhouse. It was home to the PLAV for 49 years. In the spring of 2012 it was sold and reopened the next year as Circa on Seventh."
Per the Double Door Facebook page post below, it will sadly not be re-opening in the former Wilson Theatre as previously planned.
But in another location.
“It has been a long road …
I want to share an update, albeit a painful one for our artists and supporters. The opening of Double Door in the Uptown Wilson Theatre location as previously announced is not moving forward.
Staying true to what made Double Door Double Door matters. This isn’t an ending — it’s a pivot. We’re actively exploring other locations and opportunities that better align with our vision. And we think we have found one! This is all in an effort to keep the heart and soul of music and the Double Door moving forward.
In the meantime, we’re keeping the brand alive through pop-ups, collaborations, and special moments. Our first step is a collaboration with Gallery Cabaret in Bucktown. For almost 40 years Gallery Cabaret has been a haven for artists and musicians looking to showcase their craft in an eclectic neighborhood setting.
We are updating the sound, the music calendar, and the overall vibe that made Double Door the best place to see music, but more importantly, to be part of what makes Chicago’s scene the best in the country.
We will be reopening the bar on March 1st. Come and see us and check it out.
We hope you’ll stay with us, follow along, and be part of what comes next.”
I added a CT page for the Liberty former Orpheum Theatre, but the Liberty Theatre link under Nearby Theaters just goes back to the home page.
I did not keep the original research but may be able to find it again if the page gets updated by CT Admins.
I have 2 photos to add too.
As of January 2026 it has been renovated into divided retail spaces, with 4 entrances on the building’s left side.
New roof & mechanicals.
The marquee has been restored and reinstalled since the July 2025 street view.
Link with photos below.
Original owner and builder was Woodmont Development Corporation, leased to Sidney B. Lust for operation. Original seating was 1000.
(Image added with information)
BBC Archive news piece about Fred Clark’s purchase in 1973, via Facebook. Copy & Paste to view.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/4457035077861445/
Update on ongoing renovations.
https://nadignewspapers.com/repairs-start-at-patio-theater-as-efforts-underway-to-reopen-the-historic-venue/?fbclid=IwY2xjawRDdRhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe7BhSZBINRSsOHg4ZTMmTPbEC5OYAc_6ITAL-hK0SWHrDTKkRKquFlxb56kw_aem_7FdCHEvapkCnXLiWpd-YFw
I am adding a page for Theatre Delight at 220 Locust Street. That building is still standing across the street from where the Rex/Hudson Theatre was.
Additional history below:
“Owner of the theater was Clarence Mickelson (1873-1954), who had come to Hudson in 1917 and bought the existing movie house—Theatre Delight (Knoke’s Chocolates and Nuts is there today). To improve his business, Mickelson built the new building at 205 Locust Street.”
“The first film to be shown in the new movie house featured Mary Pickford in her newest hit, “The Backdoor.” In September of 1927, a pipe organ, played by the owner’s daughter Helen Mickelson, was installed at the theater to provide music for the silent films. Sound movies were introduced in 1930, opening with the Will Rogers’ hit “So this is London.”
“After Mickelson sold the Rex in 1938, the name was changed to Hudson Theatre, and a series of owners operated the movie house, including J.G. Heywood, Arthur and Ethel Peterson, Donald Buchholz, and Stephen O’Connell.”
(Historic Hudson column by Willis Miller. Hudson Star-Observer. April 29, 1993)
Chicago Sign Museum IG post of the Foremost Liquors sign coming down.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DWRaGJLlb3Y/
Per the below portion from the Beaver County Times, Friday, April 6, 1973, the New Colonial was not demolished, but remodeled into the Granada Theatre in 1928.
“The theater building was erected in 1911 as the Colonial Theatre. It became the New Colonial in 1917. Then in 1928 the theater underwent extensive remodeling in a Spanish Moresque style that became the Granada Theatre. The auditorium contained 1,600 seats."
The full 1973 article is over on the Granada’s CT page.
Additional history credit Beaver County Times, Friday, April 6, 1973. (2 Former names need to be added to CT) Below history is renovation plans announced in 1973.
“The theater building was erected in 1911 as the Colonial Theatre. It became the New Colonial in 1917. Then in 1928 the theater underwent extensive remodeling in a Spanish Moresque style that became the Granada Theatre. The auditorium contained 1,600 seats.
The Granada showed its final movie on November 30 1960. The building eventually met the wrecking ball in April 2010 and now a medical center sits on the site."
“ A project to renovate the vacant Granada Theatre in Beaver Falls was unveiled. The building located at 1121 Seventh Avenue would be converted into an indoor shopping complex at a cost of $250,000.
In the Beaver County Times published Friday, April 6, 1973 Chi-Mar Inc., owners of the building, stated that remodeling would begin immediately and be completed by late September 1973. The climate controlled mini-mall featured a tobacco shop, photo and camera shop, carpet store, decorator shop, bakery, bath boutique, uniform shop, fabric shop, infant shop, ladies and men’s wear shop, and jewelry store. A restaurant seating 70 diners was planned in the basement.
A 12-foot wide corridor extending down the mall lead to two entrances for easy access to municipal parking lots. The exterior of the building was professionally washed and cleaned with floodlighting added. Some 18,000 cubic feet of fill was required to level the sloping floor of the theatre."
Currently For Sale for $115,000. Zillow post below.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/37-Manchester-St-Glen-Rock-PA-17327/461145107_zpid/
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Update: richard nickel and thomas stauffer - both founding members of the chicago heritage committee. courtesy of bldg. 51 archive.
https://wfuv.org/content/morrison-hotel-gallery-gives-long-lost-photos-home
1975 photo credit Myron Dubee - Herald Examiner Collection, courtesy Photo Collection - Los Angeles Public Library.
Photo credit Burlington Historical Society Museum.
Circa July 1942 photo credit Kenosha County History Center.
Additional timeline history credit Kenosha History Center.
“Ground was broken on what was to be called the Butterfly Theatre in September 1916 (not to be confused with the older Butterfly in Milwaukee, which was on the site of the extant Warner Grand). Columbia Hall was demolished to make the room. I don’t know if we have a photo of that building, nor many details about it. It existed at least by the 1880s, and was a standard hall. Indoor baseball, concerts, dances, speeches, plays, weddings… Sometimes an older building is converted into a new building, but this is not the case. On 2 September 1916, the Kenosha News reported that "This morning workmen laid the pick an axe to old Columbia Hall and it is to be leveled…”
The Butterfly Theatre was to be the finest theater in the city at that point, costing Ernst Klinkert of Racine and Kenosha’s Charles Pacini a total of $45,000. Pacini would be the operator with a long term lease. At construction, with George Lindemann as general contractor and Tully as the masonry contractor, it was claimed the theater would seat 1000 people but by the time it opened that dropped to 650. Charles O. Augustine, a Kenosha-based architect designed the building and its “sanitary” features: the ventilation was powerful enough to completely cycle the air in the theater every six minutes, it had separate flush toilets for gentlemen and ladies, floors that could be sanitized (I assume tile), a pipe organ, and space for an 14 piece orchestra.
Pacini already operated the Majestic on 6th Ave downtown (which would be remodeled after the Butterfly opened) and the Cozy Theatre on 7th Ave a block south of the Butterfly and closed up the Cozy and transferred its equipment to the new digs.
It opened 17 March 1917 to showings of Chaplin’s “Easy Street,” and a Helen Rosson drama called “The Undertow.” “Easy Street” is a classic, set a new standard for Chaplin comedic stunts. I am totally unfamiliar with “The Undertow;” it has a convoluted summary but it was a 5 reeler, so as many as 75 minutes long, and had time to spin a long yarn.
Pacini, as we all know, was murdered in August 1920. He owned the Majestic, Butterfly, and New Strand theatres and had the lease on the land of the Eichelman Hotel (where the Schwartz Building is today) and was planning a skyscraper with a huge theater inside. Within two years, the Butterfly would be a Collins theater, which also controlled the Burke and Virginian. The Pacini estate was complicated, apparently, and his heirs also said they wanted to make a go of it. But Collins by 1922.
At this point, I am going to stop trying to keep track of owners.
In 1929, the theater had a Movietone system installed to allow for talkies. Not long after, it closed. It’s mentioned into February 1930, and then vanishes for two years. And in August 1932, the theater reopened after a major redecoration, which included a new large screen instead of a small one. It shows the quality of reporting in “the good old days” that the newspaper didn’t bother looking when it closed but says it had been closed “three or four years.” Actually, only about two and a half.
In early 1941, it was redecorated again and reopened in May of that year as the Hollywood. And the photo was taken the following July.
The search terms “hollywood theater” or “hollywood theatre” in newspapers dot com yields too many durned results to sift through, as the site has a generous interpretation of searches. So let’s skip to 1952, in April the last listing of the films showing was posted: two East Side Kids films “The Smart Alecks” and “The Wise Guy.” The East Side Kids were a low budget 1940s copy of the successful 1930s Dead End Kids. The most well known Dead End Kids film was “Angels with Dirty Faces,” which was spoofed as nested films in “Home Alone” and “Home Alone 2”. Keep the change, ya filthy animal. The East Side Kids, however, were not successful. But they were retooled into The Bowery Boys, which were huge. The last East Side Kids movie premiered in 1945, the two showing at the Hollywood were from 1942: the Hollywood showing them in 1952 is sign of its decline.
It managed to reopen in October 1953, showing Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotten in “Niagara.” That’s a good movie, it was a top film of the year so Hollywood is back? It was paired with “Invaders from Mars,” which isn’t as bad as it sounds, the camera work defies its genre, it performed well and was reviewed well and is still reviewed well, and is a massively significant film because Stephen Spielberg and Joe Dante and John Landis and Martin Scorsese all saw it as children and got interested in making movies.
But didn’t last.
In 1955, the Hollywood became home to the Kenosha Missionary Baptist Church, and in 1959 they moved out to become the Temple Baptist Church on 47th Ave and 52nd St.
In 1963, the Auxiliary of the Polish Legion of American Veterans began raising funds to convert the theater into a clubhouse. It was home to the PLAV for 49 years. In the spring of 2012 it was sold and reopened the next year as Circa on Seventh."
Full history in link below.
https://www.dundalkdemocrat.ie/news/home/262238/the-amazing-history-of-the-adelphi-in-dundalk.html
Circa 1909.
https://cdm16795.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/histpcdspfd/id/281/rec/1?fbclid=IwY2xjawQMQUBleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETJXc2tPQklaTmFSWVRxejFhc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHrXIDSkdyAMaKbCdDFogALI_w64LJH5I6631mVxMMcdYqKAbiEWESsk275Ko_aem_EQIkryO5ozmXpAV2-JfIKw
Per the Double Door Facebook page post below, it will sadly not be re-opening in the former Wilson Theatre as previously planned. But in another location.
“It has been a long road … I want to share an update, albeit a painful one for our artists and supporters. The opening of Double Door in the Uptown Wilson Theatre location as previously announced is not moving forward. Staying true to what made Double Door Double Door matters. This isn’t an ending — it’s a pivot. We’re actively exploring other locations and opportunities that better align with our vision. And we think we have found one! This is all in an effort to keep the heart and soul of music and the Double Door moving forward. In the meantime, we’re keeping the brand alive through pop-ups, collaborations, and special moments. Our first step is a collaboration with Gallery Cabaret in Bucktown. For almost 40 years Gallery Cabaret has been a haven for artists and musicians looking to showcase their craft in an eclectic neighborhood setting. We are updating the sound, the music calendar, and the overall vibe that made Double Door the best place to see music, but more importantly, to be part of what makes Chicago’s scene the best in the country. We will be reopening the bar on March 1st. Come and see us and check it out. We hope you’ll stay with us, follow along, and be part of what comes next.”
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1250853883838354&set=a.530683382522078
I added a CT page for the Liberty former Orpheum Theatre, but the Liberty Theatre link under Nearby Theaters just goes back to the home page. I did not keep the original research but may be able to find it again if the page gets updated by CT Admins. I have 2 photos to add too.
As of January 2026 it has been renovated into divided retail spaces, with 4 entrances on the building’s left side. New roof & mechanicals. The marquee has been restored and reinstalled since the July 2025 street view. Link with photos below.
https://www.commercialsearch.com/commercial-property/us/mo/cape-girardeau/824-broadway-st/
All print ads and Sanborn Map in the gallery show the address to have been 2540-2542 N. Milwaukee.
Original owner and builder was Woodmont Development Corporation, leased to Sidney B. Lust for operation. Original seating was 1000. (Image added with information)
Purchased by actress Kristen Stewart per Architectural Digest.
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/kristen-stewarts-plan-to-bring-a-beloved-los-angeles-theater-back-to-life
Crisper version via Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=855993829968374&set=pb.100066732935177.-2207520000&type=3
Street view confirms it is now Demolished.