Princess Theatre
320 N. Main Street,
Eureka,
KS
67045
320 N. Main Street,
Eureka,
KS
67045
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I’ve found the Princess mentioned in trade journals as early as January, 1925. A 1917 Sanborn map shows a movie theater on the Princess’s site, though the flanking storefronts were numbered 116 and 118, with 120 and 122 being the numbers for a garage to the north, the location of the Safeway market in our vintage photo.
The theater probably had a different name in 1917. The 1914-1915 AMPD lists three houses at Eureka. One, the Gem, was listed on S. Main St., but no locations were given for the other two, the Crescent and the Electric, so one of those might have been the house that became the Princess. The Electric is mentioned in trade journals a late as 1923.
Trade and construction journals in 1923 note a proposal for a new theater on the northwest corner of 4th and Main streets in Eureka, but I’ve been unable to discover if the proposal was carried out. In any case, both the northwest and southeast corners of 4th and Main are now occupied by modern buildings, so the Princess and any theater that might have been built on the northwest corner have been demolished.