I think the address might be wrong. The ‘mill’ is the Sullivan Hardware Co. warehouse, and an early ‘70s photo shows that parking lot already there. The HABS photo looks like it’s from the late '60s at the absolute oldest.
The ‘active’ website does say in the history that the theater was remodeled after a fire in the mid ‘30s. This is very obvious looking at it from the corner. Only the front 25% is plastered moderne, the rest looks like an old red brick commercial building with a lot of filled window openings.
I don’t know if we bother to list builders, but there’s a little bronze plaque in the wall that says it was constructed by the Morris-McKoy Building Co. of Greenville, SC.
Needs to be listed as demolished! I can’t make sense of the address. Odd is the north side of the street, and there’s nothing anywhere close to the three buildings shown in the photo. I guess they might all have fit in the parking lot next to the mill? If so, this must have been second from the corner.
Streetview is wrong. Needs to move up two blocks and turn the other way. Building must still be there. One of the storefronts south of the Sullivan hardware building.
Don’t know if it was the Rex, but the 1914 Sanborn map shows a theater in the ground floor of a lodge hall in the third building south of Marion on the east side. For streetview purposes, that would be south of that lonely metal shed. Marion east of Main is just a decaying strip of pavement petering out to dirt. The entire block on both sides was demolished a long time ago, probably due to flooding. From just south of Marion to about 2 blocks further north was downtown. There is one building left, along with a few undistinguished modern buildings.
Don’t know why I didn’t think of this before, but I went to the Sanborn maps. Theater building is at 106 (?) N 4th. Appears on the 1917 map. Same building on the 1909 map is plumbing/undertaking. Appears 1896 at the latest, may be on the 1890 map. If I’m reading the 1917 map right, street number may have been 124 at the time. Building looks like it was remodeled postwar. Flat red brick front with unusual canted display window and doors that look like they might have come off the theater. Usage might be vacant or possibly an apartment on the second floor.
Map marker is way too far north. Must have been in town. The 100 block is a good bet. Almost certainly demolished, but some buildings on that block might have held a theater.
Map marker is too far south, must have been somewhere in the center of town, not down by the grain elevator. Nearly the entire downtown had been demolished by 2012, so I’m sure this is gone.
Opened 1942 by the Lincolnton Amusement Co. Named after a respected local doctor, Lemuel Lester Self, whose widow was involved in the operation of the theater. Closed sometime mid ‘60s, then became the home of a local theater company in 1969. Retail by 1975. (Info from NRHP listing)
Street view shows the wrong half of the bank. Looks like they tore the entire front off, and maybe kept three walls and the auditorium roof. Might as well be demolished. Looks nothing like a theater, and very little of the building remains, much less the interior.
I think the address might be wrong. The ‘mill’ is the Sullivan Hardware Co. warehouse, and an early ‘70s photo shows that parking lot already there. The HABS photo looks like it’s from the late '60s at the absolute oldest.
The ‘active’ website does say in the history that the theater was remodeled after a fire in the mid ‘30s. This is very obvious looking at it from the corner. Only the front 25% is plastered moderne, the rest looks like an old red brick commercial building with a lot of filled window openings.
I don’t know if we bother to list builders, but there’s a little bronze plaque in the wall that says it was constructed by the Morris-McKoy Building Co. of Greenville, SC.
Might be closed. Website listed is dead, and this one: actheatresc.org only has info through 2016.
Needs to be listed as demolished! I can’t make sense of the address. Odd is the north side of the street, and there’s nothing anywhere close to the three buildings shown in the photo. I guess they might all have fit in the parking lot next to the mill? If so, this must have been second from the corner.
Uselessly bad streetview. Of course, there doesn’t seem to be a Queen St, so that’s part of the problem. Must have been downtown somewhere.
As was pointed out ages ago, this needs to changed to demolished.
Streetview once again uselessly bad.
Streetview is wrong. Needs to move up two blocks and turn the other way. Building must still be there. One of the storefronts south of the Sullivan hardware building.
Map marker is at least 30 blocks too far north.
Needs to be listed as demolished. Really ugly ‘modern’ office building there now.
Don’t know if it was the Rex, but the 1914 Sanborn map shows a theater in the ground floor of a lodge hall in the third building south of Marion on the east side. For streetview purposes, that would be south of that lonely metal shed. Marion east of Main is just a decaying strip of pavement petering out to dirt. The entire block on both sides was demolished a long time ago, probably due to flooding. From just south of Marion to about 2 blocks further north was downtown. There is one building left, along with a few undistinguished modern buildings.
Don’t know why I didn’t think of this before, but I went to the Sanborn maps. Theater building is at 106 (?) N 4th. Appears on the 1917 map. Same building on the 1909 map is plumbing/undertaking. Appears 1896 at the latest, may be on the 1890 map. If I’m reading the 1917 map right, street number may have been 124 at the time. Building looks like it was remodeled postwar. Flat red brick front with unusual canted display window and doors that look like they might have come off the theater. Usage might be vacant or possibly an apartment on the second floor.
For what it’s worth, I think the demolition happened in August 2016.
Opened as a movie theater in 1939, which must be when the remodel to art deco happened.
Map marker is way too far north. Must have been in town. The 100 block is a good bet. Almost certainly demolished, but some buildings on that block might have held a theater.
Map marker is too far south, must have been somewhere in the center of town, not down by the grain elevator. Nearly the entire downtown had been demolished by 2012, so I’m sure this is gone.
Opened 1942 by the Lincolnton Amusement Co. Named after a respected local doctor, Lemuel Lester Self, whose widow was involved in the operation of the theater. Closed sometime mid ‘60s, then became the home of a local theater company in 1969. Retail by 1975. (Info from NRHP listing)
This is NOT the Liberty, it’s the courthouse.
Thanks, Ken!
Not the Quincy, but a much larger and fancier theater.
Street view shows the wrong half of the bank. Looks like they tore the entire front off, and maybe kept three walls and the auditorium roof. Might as well be demolished. Looks nothing like a theater, and very little of the building remains, much less the interior.
This has been demolished, along with the large building to the right.
Of all the old theaters in Quincy, it’s a shame that one of the survivors is this cloddishly-proportioned hulk.
Hannibal is maybe 15 miles away, and quite bit smaller. Not exactly a big booking.