Orpheum Theatre
720 Wabash Avenue,
Terre Haute,
IN
47807
720 Wabash Avenue,
Terre Haute,
IN
47807
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Converted from the former Lyric Theatre in around 1911, the Orpheum Theatre presented movies. It was equipped with a Kimball pipe organ. In 1914, the owner of the Orpheum Theatre, Elroy B. Smith, was murdered in the theatre by an estranged lover.
The Orpheum Theatre was still operating in 1950.
Contributed by
Bryan Krefft
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This article gives some history of the Lyric/Orpheum Theater.
Header should read Closed/Demolished. Now a parking lot.
A history of Indiana published in 1922 contains a brief biography of Terre Haute architect M. H. Johnson, Jr., and the Orpheum Theatre is included in a list of buildings designed by him and his firm, Johnson, Miller & Miller.