Vogue Theatre
622 Broadway Street,
Lincoln,
IL
62656
622 Broadway Street,
Lincoln,
IL
62656
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Previous Names: Star Theatre
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Originally opened by 1914 as the Star Theatre, it had a seating capacity of 400 and staged live performances and movies. The Star Theatre was closed in 1930.
In 1934 the building was re-modeled and re-opened on 4th January 1935 as the Vogue Theatre. It closed in 1962 and was demolished to build a Woolworth’s department store, which closed in 1994 and is now in use as the Lincoln Public Library.
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This is a 1943 photo. It looks like the marquee was reworked in the ten years before the photo immediately above.
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(Decatur IL) Herald and Review, Jan. 3, 1939: “LINCOLN - The Reinheimer Amusement Co. of Chicago Friday announced the sale of the Vogue theater, 622 Broadway, to M. A. Kirkhart of Litchfield. Dillon Kelly, present manager of the theater of the theater, will be transferred to Chicago as manager of the Parkway theater. Mr. Kirkhart, a former employe of the Frisina Amusement Co. and Litchfield theater manager, will move to Lincoln with his family. The change in ownership will become effective Jan. 1.”
The Pantagraph (Bloomington IL), Jan. 18, 1949: “Purchase of the Vogue theater by Steve Bennis was announced Monday (17). M. A. Kirkhart who had owned the Vogue for the past 10 years has purchased a bowling alley in Taylorville and Mr. Bennis will be given possession March 1. Bennis who also owns the Lincoln and Grand theaters plans to continue operation of the theater.”
A house called the Star Theatre was one of the five movie houses listed at Lincoln in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory. As the Directory doesn’t provide its address, I can’t be positive that it was the same theater that later became the Vogue.
There was a movie theater shown at this address on the October, 1914 Sanborn map of Lincoln, and as a house called the Star is listed in the 1914-1915 AMPD, I suspect this was it, and we have the opening year wrong. This house was on the ground floor of the building housing the Knights of Pythias lodge hall upstairs.
I’ve been trying to track down information about a movie house called the X-Ray Theatre, operating in Lincoln in 1911 and 1912, and suspect that it might have occupied this space before the Star. The January 28, 1911 issue of The Film Index had this item:
The October, 1914 Sanborn doesn’t show any other theaters but this one on Broadway near Kickapoo Street, but the October, 1909 Sanborn, shows a confectionery in the later theater space, not Racket store (which was apparently a kind of variety store.) It should also be noted that there were several suitable store buildings closer to Kickapoo Street which could have housed the X-Ray, but in the absence of any maps or other sources from between 1909 and 1914, I can’t say for sure that the Star/Vogue building ever housed the X-Ray Theatre, but it’s an interesting possibility.