When I moved to Franklin in 1999, this movie theater was being used as a dance studio. The seats had been torn out and the floor filled in to make it level. A church moved in shortly after the people who owned the dance studio moved out. I can’t say for certain when, but another church moved in and they did buy this building. They have since become a mainstay in the community. The city did, however, at some point between churches, replace the overhang with grants. Dan Howe,President of the Downtown Franklin Association asked that the city keep it so that he could put a museum in it to promote the area. The city declined.
When I moved to Franklin in 1999, this movie theater was being used as a dance studio. The seats had been torn out and the floor filled in to make it level. A church moved in shortly after the people who owned the dance studio moved out. I can’t say for certain when, but another church moved in and they did buy this building. They have since become a mainstay in the community. The city did, however, at some point between churches, replace the overhang with grants. Dan Howe,President of the Downtown Franklin Association asked that the city keep it so that he could put a museum in it to promote the area. The city declined.