Star Theatre
109 1st Avenue West,
Newton,
IA
50208
109 1st Avenue West,
Newton,
IA
50208
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Nobody ever uses the highway as an address until they are well out of town. Google is obsessed with giving fictitious addresses like that.
Apple Maps is having trouble placing this theater. We should probably go with the alternate address of 109 1st Ave. W.
A post on the “Get to Know Newton” Facebook page reveals that this house was called the Star Theatre. Upstairs in the same building was the Modern Woodmen of America lodge hall, which had been built around 1880. On a 1906 Sanborn map, the downstairs was vacant, so the theater opened sometime between then and 1911, but probably before 1911.