Rose Theater
102 E. Jefferson Avenue,
Bastrop,
LA
71220
102 E. Jefferson Avenue,
Bastrop,
LA
71220
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Architects: R.L. Simmons
Functions: Live Performances
Styles: Tudor Revival
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Box Office:
318.283.0120
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- Feb 17, 2013 — Rose Theatre in set for motion picture comeback
The Rose Theater was opened on April 5, 1927 presenting vaudeville and silent pictures. As a movie theater, the Rose Theater closed in the 1970’s. The theater was reopened in 1985 as a community theater and today it is home to the Cotton Country Players.
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From May 2013 a photo of the Rose Theater in Bastrop.
Additional history credit Jerry Raymond.
“The Rose Theater (named after the wife of C J Goodwin the builder) is a Arts & Crafts style venue that opened on the square in Bastrop, Louisiana on April 5, 1927 intended to accommodate traveling vaudeville shows and feature current SILENT films according to this picture from the Morehouse (parish) Enterprise ! It closed in the 70’s and was REBORN in a community restoration project in 1985 and placed on the National Register of Historical Places on September 8, 1987.”
Charles J. Goodwin grand opening ad on April 5, 1926 with Colleen Moore in “Orchids and Ermine” supported by Hedda Hopper in “The Mona Lisa” and organist Ruby McMathe at the console of the Etsey Pipe Organ in photos. Reboot ad under Gulf States as the Rose Cinema on November 10, 1967 with “The Dirty Dozen” in photos.