Doty Theatre
302 North Commercial Street,
Neenah,
WI
54956
302 North Commercial Street,
Neenah,
WI
54956
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This page has a couple of photos of the Doty Theatre building after it had been converted into a tavern called the Doty Palm Garden. The text says this happened in the 1930s.
The building was built in 1912, and the Doty Theatre had an instrument called the Bartola, which was the predecessor of the Barton theater organ. The theater was in operation by June 26, 1912, the date on which, according to the January, 1913, issue of Insurance Engineering, the house suffered damage caused by movie film catching fire. No dollar figure was given for the loss, so it must have been minor.
By 1914, the Doty Theatre, operated by John H. Herziger, had competition in the form of the Idle Hour Theatre, operated by P. J. Droske. Both houses were mentioned in the January 3 issue of The Moving Picture World.