Town Hall Theatre
Church Street,
Canaan,
NH
03741
Church Street,
Canaan,
NH
03741
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The town hall auditorium, which later became a community hall, was used as a commercial cinema after 1910. When C.L. Beede ran the theater it was sometimes informally called Beede’s Canaan Theatre. It lasted into the 1950’s.
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The Theatre Historical Society archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Town Hall Theatre; it’s Card # 474. Address is “Main St.” There is an exterior photo dated April 1941. Condition is Fair. The report says that it opened about 1910, shows MGM films, and has 270 seats. The 1940 population was 1,300.
The operation of the theater was taken over in the late-1920s by a local man, C.L. Beede. For many years it was opened 3 nights per week in the summer, 2 nights per week the remainder of the year. There were no matinee showings.
The projectors from this cinema have been preserved and are to go into a museum exhibit.