Cameo Theater
221 N. Main Street,
Lawrenceville,
VA
23868
221 N. Main Street,
Lawrenceville,
VA
23868
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This theater appears on the 1920 Sanborn, in the rear of a two story brick commercial building, the front of which was occupied by a confectionery. The building was constructed sometime before 1907, likely about 20 years earlier based on the appearance.
It had been a bank, but is vacant on the 1912 map. Given the small size, this is almost certainly the Cameo Theater listed in the 1926 Yearbook. This disappears from listings after 1929, and in 1931 a Capitol Theater of 200 seats begins to be listed. This may or may not have been the same theater. With later maps unavailable, it’s hard to say.
The building is in good shape today, and is the offices of a cancer support organization.
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Seth Gaines
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This item from the June 3, 1916 issue of Moving Picture World might be about the Cameo Theatre’s origin: “Will Build in Lawrenceville, Va.
“Lawrenceville, Va.—This place is soon to have a new and modern motion picture theater as a result of a fire in the operating room of the Opera House during which the five reel subject ‘The Sins of the Mothers,’ V-L-S-E., and a single reel Universal was destroyed. The owners of the building, which also houses a bank, refuse to allow the exhibition of motion pictures there in the future. E. K. Fox, who has been operating in the Opera House and who also has the Opera House at Snow Hill, Va., is fixing up a tent to use during the summer. He expects to have his new house ready early in the fall.”