Majestic Theatre

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.

Contributed by Ken Roe

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Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on December 18, 2014 at 11:05 am

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:

“Improvements at the Majestic theater and at the new theater which will be run by Chris Taylor in Kewanee were held up pending the revision of a local ordinance regarding theaters. West contemplates putting in a new front and general re-arrangement of the theater.”
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.

SethG
SethG on August 21, 2021 at 4:50 pm

This has not been demolished. It has a hideously ugly slipcover, but it’s still there.

SethG
SethG on August 21, 2021 at 4:57 pm

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.

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