Rialto Theater
86 College Street,
New Haven,
CT
06510
86 College Street,
New Haven,
CT
06510
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The Rialto Theater was a silent era theater that was destroyed in a fire in November of 1921.
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This is a 1921 photo of the Rialto after the fire.
Here is an article about the burning of the Rialto Theatre from The New York Times of November 28, 1921.
The Rialto Theatre occupied a Greek Revival building originally built as the College Street Congregational Church in the late 1840s. The building was bought by Yale University in 1898, and it served as the University’s school of music for about two decades before its conversion into a movie theater. The house seated about 500, and was full the night of the fire. The ultimate death toll from the fire was nine, with over a hundred injured.