Howard Theatre
414 Howard Avenue,
New Haven,
CT
06510
414 Howard Avenue,
New Haven,
CT
06510
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The Howard Theatre was opened in early-1929, designed by architect Charles H. Abramowitz. It is located right over the Amtrak and Metro North rail line, a stone’s throw from Union Station. A police substation is next door. It was a small neighborhood theatre and you can tell by it’s red brick long structure. It is now a church.
I stopped by a second time yesterday and a parishioner/custodian told me in my 10 second questioning that it was a supermarket after the theater closed and is now a church.
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Dave Bonan
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An Austin theater organ opus 1605 size 3/7 was installed in the Howard Theater in 1928.
I love your organistic validations, Lost Memory.
Thanks. Even if your not interested in the theater organ itself, the installation date or year in this case can help establish some sort of a timeline. At least we know that this theater existed in 1928.
Exactly. Thank you.
This building looks like a former garage or something rather than a theatre. It has a low ceiling, bricked-over windows in the walls, and no pilasters.
Yeah, I know. But they assured me it was a theatre and a supermarket.
There’s an old photo of the Howard Theatre at http://www.cinematour.com/tour/us/16489.html and it doesn’t look at all like what is there now. Apparently in the old photo it had been converted into a bowling alley.
I remember going to The Howard for a great double-bill ( a thing of the past for sure) of King Kong and Might Joe Young.