Gennett Theatre
N. 8th Street and N. A Street,
Richmond,
IN
47374
N. 8th Street and N. A Street,
Richmond,
IN
47374
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The Gennett Theatre was built in 1899 at N. 8th Street and N. A Street on the site of the Bradley Theatre which had burned down in 1898. Originally a live theater, the Gennett Theatre was remodeled in 1916 to become a movie house.
It was later renamed first the Washington Theatre, then the Lawrence Theatre before it closed. The theatre was razed in 1935 and replaced by a gas station, which today serves as a real estate office.
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There is a picture of the Gennett Theater here:
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A Marr & Colton theater organ was installed in the Washington Theater in 1925.
There is a photo of the post-demolition site here:
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Richmond Ind Oscar Cobb of Chicago is preparing plans for a $25.000 theater to be erected on the site of the Bradley opera house Stone; an Illustrated Magazine
Listed as the Lawrence Theater in 1935 with 810 seats.
The September 9, 1916, issue of The Moving Picture World had an item about the Washington Theatre:
The house was remodeled and converted to movies before being renamed the Washington, though. The March 18, 1916, issue of The Moving Picture World had said that the remodeled and redecorated Gennett Theatre in Richmond had reopened with “Birth of a Nation” as its first attraction.Until the exact address can be found, the location of this theater should be changed to N. 8th and N. A Streets (the theater faced 8th Street, but the real estate office now on the site uses an A Street address.) Richmond has multiple streets of the same number and letter, with the result that Google Maps is putting the pin icon at NW A Street and NW 8th Street, over a mile west of the theater’s actual location. I’ve updated Street View to the correct location, but the map pin is currently still at the wrong spot.