Majestic Theatre
105 W. 2nd Street,
Kewanee,
IL
61443
105 W. 2nd Street,
Kewanee,
IL
61443
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The Majestic Theatre was opened by 1910. It was closed in 1946. In 2022 it was in use as a sportswear shop.
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Ken Roe
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The August 27, 1910, issue of The Billboard listed the Majestic Theatre in Kewanee as part of Thielen’s Illinois Vaudeville Circuit. The April 5, 1913, issue of The Moving Picture World said that the Majestic was to be remodeled:
Mr. Taylor’s new theater opened a few weeks later as the Tabard. In 1913, Kewanee also had houses called the Grand Theatre (probably the former Grand Opera House,) the Dreamland, the Bijou, the Willard, and the Olympia (formerly the Princess) Theatre.This has not been demolished. It has a hideously ugly slipcover, but it’s still there.
The neighboring Hallin building, which has been really badly treated, but is more visible, was built in 1899. The theater was built in a matching style sometime after 1905, when there’s an old wooden three story building with a Chinese laundry on the lot.