Capitol Theatre
Water Street,
Augusta,
ME
04330
Water Street,
Augusta,
ME
04330
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In the 1942-43 Motion Picture Almanac, the Capitol in Augusta is listed as part of Maine & New Hampshire Theatres Co. of Boston.
Ron, the Capitol is still listed as being operated by the Maine & New Hampshire Theatres Company by the 1951 Film Daily Yearbook.
Ron and Bryan the Capitol is Still listed in the 1956 Almanac with the same theatre Company.
I checked on google maps the entire length of water street and the only building that resembled a theater is at approx. 174 Water St. Front looks like it could easily have been a very early theatre building circa 1920, no modernizations, all brick. Side is solid brick and a taller stagehouse area in back. It looks like it has been abandoned for decades, all the small windows in the front are broken out. If this is it, then it was never converted into anything else. Just three sets of double doors in front, marquee long gone. Must be a wreck inside.
I think you mean at 147, not 174. That’s the old Colonial Theatre.
The theater currently displayed in Street View is the Colonial.
The Capitol is long gone. It was situated in a building built in 1865 at the corner of Water Street and Market Square (near Winthrop Street.) It was converted into the Capitol Theatre in 1930. The building was demolished in 1983 after a major fire, the third in the building’s history.
The building is landmark #18 on this web page. There’s a small photo from the pre-Capitol period.