Theater
120 N. Wabash Avenue,
Howard,
KS
67349
120 N. Wabash Avenue,
Howard,
KS
67349
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This small theater appears on the 1912 map. It was located in an old one story stone storefront constructed before 1885. It was a drugstore at least through 1905. This building was not very deep, but there was room for a stage, oddly located in a corner.
Howard does not appear in the 1914-15 AMPD, and no later maps are available online. By 1926, a 700 seat theater was listed, which is clearly not this building.
The building doubtless reverted to retail long ago. It is rather shabby, and has been incorporated into the hardware store to the south.
Contributed by
Seth Gaines
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I wonder if this house could have been the Princess Theatre? This web page lists movies being shown at the Princess Theatre in Howard, Kansas, as published in the January 29, 1914 issue of the Howard Courant.
Howard also once had a five and ten cent movie house called the Star Theatre, but all I’ve found out about it is that it once had a manager named C. E. Shull. As far as I’ve been able to discover, Star and Princess were the only two theater names used in Howard prior to the 1925 opening of Crook’s Opera house. Of course we can’t rule out the possibility that Star and Princess were both name used by this house at different times.
Joe, I Googled Howard, KS Princess Theater and some information came up indicating it opened in July 1913 and lasted until about 1922. This piece only mentioned live entertainment such as minstrel shows. It gave the address as 118 North Main Street.
However, on the same page was a Princess Theatre in Nashville, Arkansas at 118 North Main Street on a site called Howard.net.
If the page Rob found is accurate, and the Princess opened in 1913, then this is not the Princess unless the 1913 opening was just a re-opening under a new name. But 120 N. Wabash having been a theater on the 1912 Sanborn, and the Princess dating from 1913, makes it more likely that this was the Star Theatre, at least in 1912.