Lyric Theatre
116 S. Commerce Street,
Lewisburg,
OH
45338
116 S. Commerce Street,
Lewisburg,
OH
45338
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The Lyric Theatre opened during the week of July 22, 1935 by the husband-and-wife team of Mr. and Mrs. N.M. Burris of Bremen, Ohio, although its official opening date that week remains unknown.
The Lyric quietly closed on April 13, 1953 with Robert Taylor in “Above And Beyond” (unknown if extras added) for unknown reasons.
By the way, the address is completely bogus. The original name of the street was Greenville, but by 1951 it was S Commerce St. The original address was probably 120-122, but it is now 116.
The Town Hall was built sometime between 1895 and 1901. From the beginning, there was an ‘opera house’ on the second floor, which had a deep balcony with a small U-shaped cutout in the center. As late as the 1920 map, it does not seem to be used as a cinema.
The 1951 map shows something much like the photo, and the balcony has been drastically remodeled to a sort of angled C-shape. At this point the other theater in town has closed, and it’s unlikely that such a small town could have supported two at once.
The ground floor was always city offices, but today the space is used by the fire department, which was housed in the little building to the left while the theater was operating.