Crown Theater
19 N. Court Street,
Crown Point,
IN
46307
19 N. Court Street,
Crown Point,
IN
46307
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This is a photo of the Crown Theater.
I LOVE the Crown Theater! I am shocked it is still open though.. but GOOD, I’m glad. The inside is gorgeous! Love it.
A close-up view of the Crown.
A Crown Theater in Crown Point, Indiana had a Barton theater organ installed in 1924.
Photos of this theater are HERE. I hope the inside is gorgeous, because the outside sure isn’t.
Here is another photo of the Crown Theater.
This is a 1985 photo.
Looked this theatre up for a friend who used to live there,he said it was the only movie house in Crown Point.
The name CROWN Theater came of course from the city name of CROWN Point. Sota a strange name for a place first known as Robinsons Prairie, for Solon and Milo Robinson. Allegdly, when Solon Robinson saved his neignbors' lands from speculators, he was nicknamed ‘KING of the Squatters,’ and the settlement was named ‘CROWN’ for the ‘KING’ and ‘Point’ for the elevation on which Robinson’s cabin and the old beautiful historic courthouse now still stands. And now you know the rest of the story!
Opened around 1924 and may have been called the Crown Theater.
1930-1961 Palace Theater
1940-1950 Owned by Theatrical Managers, Inc.
1955-1961 Owned by Y&W Theaters.
Early 1960’s Closed.
1990- Crown Theater
1924 a 2/manual (keyboard) Barton Organ Company Theater Pipe Organ was shipped to the CROWN Theater. Dan Barton of Oaskosh, Wisconsin founed his company in 1918 and it became the fifth largest builder of theater pipe organs. I don’t know what happened to the organ. Any pipes left in the theater?
105 year old (in 2012) Edith “Sautter remembers watching silent movies accompanied by piano music at the Palace Theater (now Crown Theater).”
See also the [url=/theater/25681/]Rex Theater[/url] in Crown Point
Anyone have old photos, photos of the inside, more info?
Thanks Mary Harrigan