Fox Theatre
112 W. National Avenue,
Brazil,
IN
47834
112 W. National Avenue,
Brazil,
IN
47834
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This theatre appears on the 1946 Sanborn, in an old 2-story brick commercial building likely built sometime before 1883. As recently as 1921, this had been a bookstore/stationer with a photographer above.
The conversion to a theatre may have taken up both floors. It may have been at this point that the façade was remodeled to a plain flat front.
It’s not clear when it closed, but the current storefront appears to be late-1950’s to mid-1960’s.
Contributed by
Seth Gaines
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This may have been the Fox? Cinematour lists a Fox in Brazil with no other information.
Could this item from Motion Picture Daily of January 11, 1935 be about this theater?
The 1947 Film Daily Yearbook lists only four theaters at Brazil: The 400-seat Beverly, the 300-seat Fox, the 800-seat Lark, and the 800-seat Sourwine. As the locations of the Beverly, Lark and Sourwine are accounted for, by process of elimination 112 W. National must have been the Fox. The 1935 storefront remodeling might have been either the Fox or the Beverly, but the item’s claim of 500 seats might make the Beverly the more likely candidate, unless the 500 was a typo.I think this theater has to be the Fox. There’s not enough information on either this or the Beverly to say which one opened in 1935. It’s odd that there were two opening so late to compete with the Lark and the Sourwine. Brazil peaked in population around 1910, and seems to have been declining ever since. Downtown is in a pretty sad state, and most of the largest buildings are long gone.