Park Theatre
1760 East Main Street,
Waterbury,
CT
1760 East Main Street,
Waterbury,
CT
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This Waterbury, Connecticut church was first known as the Hamilton Theatre and then the Park Theatre.
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Roger Katz
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That is weird. Most old theaters that are now churches that I’ve seen have kept the marquees. If anything, it advertises better than a flier in the window.
1935 Hamilton Theatre flier ad: http://www.powimage.com/image/3891.jpeg
I was there on Thursday and the marquee is torn down in such a haphazard and sloppy way. There was no thought to at least cover it up with sheetrock or anything. Just a big hunk of metal jutting out.
Photo of the Hamilton Theater in 1924
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I went past the theatre the other day and I don’t think the church is there anymore. The facade looks whitewashed and there is brown wood paneling on the bottom of the front and over the previous poster holders. The once jutted out marquee remnants are boarded over and not blended in at all.
Opened in 1921. Became the Park Theatre in the 1950s.
Here is a 1939 newspaper ad:
http://tinyurl.com/mk63zk
Does any body know the exact date the theater was sold to the Church of God?
“The building in these 1986 photos look a lot like this theater.”
It is the same theater. Those photos are from the mid-1980s when it was the Allison Theater before it went belly up and was converted to a church.
Here’s what it looked like when it opened in 1921: