Pearl Theatre

601 Main Street,
Alta Vista, KS 66834

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SethG
SethG on August 19, 2024 at 2:42 pm

Again, this description needs to be completely rewritten. The dates are wrong. The building was constructed by Union Thomas in 1904. I think the 1917 date may be when movies were first shown. The auditorium was used into the late ‘70s, but I think movies stopped sometime earlier.

The functions need to be removed. The ground floor retail spaces were in use recently, but the auditorium has been disused for years. It is still in decent shape, as shown by pictures from a visit by the KS Historical Society in 2023. Linking to this will not work, but going to: https://khri.kansasgis.org/ and putting ‘Alta Vista’ as the city in the Search tab will get you there.

I have added a picture of the building, which originally had a simple tin cornice with a triangular pediment in the center. This was removed many years ago.