State Theatre
110 Pine Street,
Corning,
NY
14830
110 Pine Street,
Corning,
NY
14830
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Additional Info
Previously operated by: Schine Circuit Inc.
Architects: Leon H. Lempert, Sr.
Firms: Leon H. Lempert & Son
Previous Names: Opera House
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The Opera House was operating in the Fall of 1891. In February 1923 it was renamed State Theatre, and in 1941 had been operated by the Schine Circuit, who had recently closed the theatre. It was still listed as (Closed) in 1943. It had reopened by 1950.
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Ken Roe
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The Wurlitzer records show their organ opus 570 was installed in the Princess Theatre in Corning NY. Would that be this theatre? CT doesn’t list a Princess Theatre in Corning, and the State / Opera House is the right age.
The August 12, 1916, issue of The Moving Picture World had the following item about the Opera House:
Then the September 30 issue of the same publication has this item about the Opera House:Will: The Princess was one of two houses in Corning that were mentioned in the August 19, 1916, issue of The Moving Picture World (the other was the Bijou.) As the Princess was mentioned between the two articles about the Opera House that were less than two months apart it seems unlikely that they were the same theater.An ad for architects Leon H. Lempert & Son in the 1900-1901 edition of Julius Cahn’s guide has the Opera House in Corning on a list headed “Some of our theatres.”
Will: According to the website of the Palace Theatre their building was originally opened as the Little Princess Theatre in the late 1800’s.
Thanks Roger. Good lead!
An item in the February 3, 1923, issue of the Corning Evening Leader said that the former Corning Opera House would reopen as the State Theatre on Monday night, February 5.
A solicitation of bids for construction of the Corning Opera House was published in the March 26, 1891, issue of the Corning Journal. In an article about Rose Coghlan in the December 5, 1918, issue of the Corning Evening Leader the actress reminisced about her first appearance on the stage of the Opera House on October 8, 1891, saying that the theater was “very new” at the time. The theater must have opened in the fall of 1891.
The 1914/15 American Motion Picture Directory places the address as 110 Pine Street (not 10).
The Schine circuit had control of the State by 1926, when the March 13 issue of Moving Picture World said that the company planned a complete remodeling of the house. The $75,000 project was slated to begin on May 1.