American Theatre

125 N. 2nd Street,
Sterling, CO 80751

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SethG
SethG on May 16, 2023 at 4:57 am

Maybe? We definitely need to add America, with no ‘N’, as an aka.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on May 16, 2023 at 1:00 am

Back in 1924, the March 1 issue of Moving Picture World mentioned a house in Sterling called the U.S.A. Theatre. I wonder if that might have been an aka for this house?

SethG
SethG on May 15, 2023 at 10:04 am

Needs to be listed as demolished. The purported address makes no sense. Main runs E-W, so there has never been a N Main. I suggest 125 N 2nd St, which on the 1918 map is an empty space between a two-story brick building, and a two-story concrete block dealership. That matches up pretty well with what’s shown in one photo. That whole corner is now a parking lot.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on November 23, 2021 at 4:27 am

Other photos of the America Theatre show a Mission or Spanish Colonial Revival style parapet reminiscent of the Alamo at San Antonio. Movie posters dating from the mid-1920s are on display in these photos. The building certainly dates from that period at the latest, and possibly from the later 1910s.