Crown Theater
72 Middlesex Street,
Lowell,
MA
01852
72 Middlesex Street,
Lowell,
MA
01852
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The Crown/Allen still exists on Middlesex St., at least the front of it. I don’t know if the former auditorium is still in place in back. Supposedly there is a gym in there, plus a couple of other tenants. The recent photo I saw of it matches the building in the MGM Report photo.
The Allen Theatre in Lowell was included in the MGM Theatre Photograph and Report project, but unfortunately, no one filled out the form, not even the street address. There is a facade photo taken in June 1950. The building appears to have at least 4 stories and is brick. There is a 2-sided triangle marquee with black letters on white background. Movies playing are “T Men” and Red Skelton in “Merton of the Movies”. At the apex of the triangle there is an “A” in a circle, with the name “Allen” on the top edge of the marquee in big letters. Above the marquee on the 2nd floor is a row of windows; and above that on the 3rd floor is a large, wide window with an arch at the top. To the right of the theatre is a building with “Middlesex” in big letters; to the left is a shoe store. There is no MGM Report for the Crown or Allen in 1941, when most of the other Reports were made.
I do believe that The Crown Theater did become the Allen Theater.
A Kilgen organ, opus 4148, was installed in this theatre in 1928.
I have the Crown Theatre listed in Film Daily Yearbooks’s;1941 and 1942 editions with a seating capacity of 800 (no address given)
In the 1950 edition of F.D.Y. it has gone from the listings, but there is a Allen Theatre (not in the two previous editions) that is located at 72 Middlesex Street, Lowell, MA. with a seating capacity given as 970. Could this be a re-named Crown Theatre?
Do you know the street address? I’d like to look at this the next time I’m in Lowell.