Kansan Theatre
116 N. Douglas Avenue,
Ellsworth,
KS
67439
116 N. Douglas Avenue,
Ellsworth,
KS
67439
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The Kansan Theatre was opened in the late-1920’s. In the 1941 & 1943 editions of Film Daily Yearbook, the Kansan Theatre is listed as (Closed). It was listed as being owned by Commonwealth Amusement. By 1950, Commonwealth Amusement had reopened the Kansan Theatre.
It was demolished in 1970.
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Ken Roe
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If the address is right, this has been demolished. 116 was a very old two story stone building dating probably to the late 1870s. According to the KHRI, it was the first masonry building in downtown. Between 1911 and 1920, it was doubled in depth. The 1920 map shows a harness shop there. The building at 118 still has some fragments of 116 stuck to the upper story. It was gone by 2004, and probably long before that.
The history needs some improvement. I’m not sure when exactly it opened. The NRHP listing for downtown says ‘the 1920s’, although the 1928 map apparently shows a vulcanizing operation here. The building was demolished in 1970.