State Theatre
1431 Prospect Avenue,
Kansas City,
MO
64127
1431 Prospect Avenue,
Kansas City,
MO
64127
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This opened as Diamond on March 22nd, 1913. Grand opening ad in the photo section.
According to a history of Kansas City’s neighborhood theaters published by the Jackson County Historical Society, the State Theatre at 15th and Prospect was in operation by November, 1918, as the Diamond Theatre. It was still called the Diamond at least as late as May, 1929, but by 1937 it had become the State.
The August 28, 1915, issue of The Moving Picture World pushes the Diamond back even earlier, saying that it had been built by C. A. Nichols and Joe Tinker “…several years ago….”