National Theater
156 N. Santa Fe Avenue,
Salina,
KS
67401
156 N. Santa Fe Avenue,
Salina,
KS
67401
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This theater opened sometime after 1905. It was located in an old two story brick commercial building constructed sometime between 1884 and 1887. The 1905 map shows a secondhand store here.
This theater was definitely operating by 1910, as it was damaged in a fire that July. It apparently returned to service, and appears on the August 1911 Sanborn.
It had almost certainly closed by 1914-15, as it does not appear in the AMPD. The 1917 map shows secondhand furniture sold there.
This building is one of many lost to a wasteland of parking lots, this one for a dumpy modern bank that replaced a very nice old city hall sometime after 1970.
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Seth Gaines
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This house was later known as the Princess Theatre. This page from a Kansas genealogy site has descriptions of Salina businesses taken from a booklet published in the 1910s (no exact date is provided) and one is C. A. Thacher’s Princess Theatre, 156 N. Santa Fe Avenue. Although the booklet is undated, the February 17, 1912 issue of The Billboard makes reference to “Carl A. Thacher, manager of Princess Theatre, Salina.”