Cozy Theatre
120 1st Avenue W,
Dyersville,
IA
52040
120 1st Avenue W,
Dyersville,
IA
52040
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This theater appears on the 1915 Sanborn, in the western storefront of the M. Pott building, a large, two-story brick commercial block constructed in 1892. This space is shown as a books & stationery/dry goods store on the 1908 map. The 1929 edition of Film Daily Yearbook lists the Cozy Theatre, but the seating capacity is not given. It had gone from listings by 1932.
Later maps are not available online, but this closed many years ago. Sadly, like so many historic buildings in the downtown area, this has been very poorly treated, and was the victim of an atrocious remodel. Only the cornice of the original structure remains. The building appears to be apartments.
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Seth Gaines
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The Cozy is the only theater listed at Dyersville in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory and is occasionally mentioned, along with the Plaza Theatre, in early trade journal items from the 1910s and 1920s. The only other theater name I’ve found associated with Dyersville is the Nemo, mentioned in issues of Moving Picture World in November and December, 1916, when it was operated by a Mr. A. E. Bennett.