Clement Theater
Broadway,
Dover,
NH
03820
Broadway,
Dover,
NH
03820
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Another photo that I came across is the Clement Theater in Dover, N.H. (Click the link below for photo)
Any further information on the Clement Theater would be appreciated.
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I should have mentioned that the Uptown’s address was 4 Broadway, Dover NH.
The MGM Theatre reports of May 1941 list 3 movie theaters in Dover NH, the Strand, the State and the Broadway. So “Broadway” must have been the name in 1941.
In 1930, two theaters are listed for Dover. The Strand and the Orpheum. In 1935 there are three theaters listed for Dover. The Strand, Orpheum and Broadway. I wish that the photo above had a date. I don’t think that the Clement is the same theater as any of the later theaters. It might have been an early silent theater only.
Lost- that photo shows a really old theater, perhaps from the 19th century. In the 1897-98 edition of the Julius Cahn Official Theatrical Guide, there is a Clement Opera House in Berlin NH run by one F. Clement. Possibly, Mr. Clement opened a theater with his name on it in Dover, later. In the same Guide there is a City Opera House in Dover, but Mr. Clement was not associated with it.
Someone on this site mentions that it was hot in the Clement Theater during the summer. I wonder how old the person is that wrote that comment. it’s possible that the Clement Theater survived into the 1920s which would make that person over 80 years old.
I don’t know that it settles if this theatre had an AKA but the firehouse that was mentioned in the photo of the Clement which was across the street has an address of 9 Broadway, The firehouse is stil being used as the same. The 4 Broadway address could be correct for this theatre.
I looking at the map again, 4 Broadway would have been at the beginning of the block right at Central, so if the Clement was across the street from the fire house it would be at the other end of the block. That would indicate that the Broadway Theatre and the Clement were two different theatres. That is if the 4 Broadway can be confirmed for the Broadway Theatre address.
I did confirm the address for the Fire House, it is 9 Broadway.
I can’t find the Clement mentioned in Boxoffice or any of its predecessors. The place must have closed.
If somebody wants to add the Broadway Theatre in Dover, the April 6, 1946, issue of Boxoffice said it had burned down on November 4, 1945, and was being rebuilt. However, when the new theater on the Broadway’s site opened it was named the Uptown. Lloyd Bridgham was the owner of both houses.
Photo at bottom of this page shows the auditorium of the Broadway Theatre circa 1937: Boxoffice