Princess Theater

504 Second Street,
Webster City, IA 50595

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SethG
SethG on January 25, 2024 at 2:17 pm

Link is dead, so it’s hard to say, but there’s no theater shown here on the 1923 map. The location does match some history on the Webster’s site. 504 and 506 were the original structure of the three story Grand Central Hotel, later the St. James, which was built sometime before 1885. Between 1907 and 1915, a two story building was constructed at 508. This seems to have been an annex to the hotel, and they used the second floor. The 1915 map shows it vacant, and the 1923 map shows a drugstore here. It was quite a bit deeper, and would have made a decent theater, but the timeline is not working.