Kentucky Theatre
224 W. Main Street,
Danville,
KY
40422
224 W. Main Street,
Danville,
KY
40422
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Previously operated by: Paramount Pictures Inc., Warner Bros. Circuit Management Corp.
Architects: John J. Curtis, Leon K. Frankel
Firms: Frankel and Curtis
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The Kentucky Theatre was opened March 31, 1927. It was equipped with a Wurlitzer organ. It was closed March 15, 1977 with “Search for Noah’s Ark” and was converted to retail use.
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The Kentucky Theater was converted to retail space in the early ‘70s. The theater was completely demolished and the space was taken over by an ajoining department store called “The Hub,” which is now also closed.
The theater had a classic “theater” design with a stand-alone ticket booth, long up-sloping lobby and a balcony.
Though miamiguy says the Kentucky Theatre was demolished, from his description of what happened it sounds like it was only dismantled and converted to retail use. The building at 224 W. Main Street looks like it dates from the 1910s or 1920s. Unless the auditorium was behind the building, where there is now a huge parking garage, the building it occupied still exists.