Historiograph
3309 Olive Street,
St. Louis,
MO
63103
3309 Olive Street,
St. Louis,
MO
63103
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This theater was opened by November 1907 and was shown on the 1909 Sanborn, operating in a one story commercial building with a blacksmith shop in the rear.
This theater is listed in the 1914-15 AMPD.
This block has been heavily altered, and it seems that this theater and the Mutoscope Theatre just to the east were demolished and replaced by the Plaza Hotel (now apartments), which was constructed in 1915.
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This house was in operation by November, 1907. That month’s issue of Up-to-the-Times magazine had an article on moving pictures which included this paragraph: “The moving picture theatres are known by many names. For instance, St. Louis has a ‘Theatorium,’ a ‘Scenic Theatre,’ a ‘Nickelodeon,’ a ‘World’s Dream,’ an ‘Orpheum,’ a ‘Historiograph,’ and numerous ‘Trips’ to everywhere, from ‘under the sea’ to Mars.”
An itinerant movie exhibition outfit called The Historiograph Company was founded in Montreal in 1897, and the founder, Marie de Kerstrat, exhibited movies in St. Louis, possibly at the World’s Fair, in 1904, and by 1907 was operating permanent movie theatres in New York. The biographical sketch of de Kerstrat" I found doesn’t say anything about her operating a theater in St. Louis, but it would be interesting if there were a connection.