White Palace Theatre
22 S. Locust Street,
Pana,
IL
62557
22 S. Locust Street,
Pana,
IL
62557
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Previous Names: Princess Theatre
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The White Palace Theatre was opened on April 15, 1907. It was operated by Huggins & Dickinson and had 6-shows a day. It appears on the November 1909 Sanborn, in the northern storefront of a two-story brick commercial building likely constructed between 1886 and 1893. The 1902 map shows it as a furniture store.
The theatre was closed on January 28, 1910. It was briefly reopened as the Princess Theatre on March 10, 1910. It soon reopened as the White Palace Theatre and remained in operation on the 1916 map, but it had closed and become a store on the 1925 map. The building survived, badly mistreated and with some awful remodeling, up until around 2022. After two fires on the south side of the block (along 2nd Street), the entire block was leveled, with one survivor at the SE corner.
It can be seen on the 2013 streetview, being the ugly gray mess just north of the formstone thing with three oriels.
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Seth Gaines
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The obituary of an Arnold D. Dickerson, in the October 17, 1947 issue of Film Daily said that he began his career as an exhibitor as the proprietor of the White Palace Theatre in Pana in 1907.
Arnold “Doug” Dickerson and John M. Huggins launched the White Palace Theatre on April 15, 1907 with Gaston Velle’s “Miniature Theatre” and “Bad Mother.” They closed it two years later with a constable’s auction on January 28, 1910. It reopened on March 10, 1910 briefly as the Princess Theatre. It was renamed the White Palace before closing again.