Princess Theatre
821 Central Avenue,
Hot Springs,
AR
71901
821 Central Avenue,
Hot Springs,
AR
71901
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The front part of the building was constructed as part of a commercial building in the early-1900’s. Around 1915, the auditorium was constructed and it opened as the Princess Thetare. Seating was listed at 836. The Princess Theatre was destroyed by fire in 1935. The Malco Theatre was later built on the site of the Princess Theatre.
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The dates are all wrong on this. The front portion was not built until sometime between 1901 and 1908. It was a commercial building, likely with apartments above. The auditorium does not appear until the 1915 map, which shows the entrance in the southern portion of what is now the Colonial Hotel, with an 821 address. 817 belonged to an unrelated building to the north.
The Princess is listed in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory, though no address is given so it might have been at a different location then.
No reason to think it was somewhere else. Any time after late 1908 is perfectly plausible.