New Grand Theatre

213 W. Monroe Street,
Mexico, MO 65265

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50sSNIPES
50sSNIPES on May 25, 2024 at 11:45 am

The actual opening date is June 9, 1924 with Lloyd Hughes in “Judgement Of The Storm” along with five acts of vaudeville by the Junior Orpheum circuit.

  • Fact: Both the New Grand Theatre and the Ferris Grand Opera House ended its operations with a fire destruction within 11 years, three months, and ten days apart.
SethG
SethG on April 17, 2019 at 1:22 pm

The New Grand replaced the Ferris Grand Opera House, a large and fancy opera house which was constructed between 1886 and 1890. On the 1914 Sanborn map it is listed as ‘Ruins of Fire’, so this site seems to have been unlucky.

Chris1982
Chris1982 on September 7, 2014 at 11:22 pm

The Grand Theatre was open prior to 1926, but is no longer listed in 1931 or later.