Empire Theatre

This theater appears on the October 1915 Sanborn. It was located upstairs in a three story brick building constructed sometime after 1908, and which housed the post office, and a hall on the third floor.

Based on the location, this is almost certainly the Empire Theatre listed on Main in the 1914-15 AMPD (all older maps show King as ‘Main or Shenandoah’). An airdome was located a short distance to the east, and may have been associated with this theater.

This theater had closed by 1923. The post office likely remained until the New Deal post office was constructed in 1936. The ugly fake colonial office here today appears to be the ground floor of the original building.

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