Avon Theater
121 South Peterboro Street,
Canastota,
NY
13032
121 South Peterboro Street,
Canastota,
NY
13032
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Originally opened as the Sherwood Theater, by 1941, it had been renamed Avon Theater.
The Avon Theater closed around 1981.
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Here is some information about the Sherwood/Avon Theater:
“The Avon Theater at 121 S. Peterboro Street occupies the site of the Bruce Opera House, destroyed by fire in 1911. Both the opera house and, subsequently, the theater, played important roles in the cultural life of the village. The theater, originally named the Sherwood, operated as a vaudeville house and nickelodeon during its earliest years; by the 1920s it was showing movies exclusively. It remained a center of community activity until 1981 when, due to financial difficulties, it closed.” Source
Lost: The May 13 photo shows a marquee in need of repair, but it has what looks like a Vitrolite facade and half moon doors which would be original.
Patsy….The marquee looked bad back in 1981. I don’t know what it looks like today or even if the building still exists.
I don’t know either, but I do know via a recent email the demise of another NYS theatre that has been razed in Canisteo NY.
In 1955 there is a Plaza heater listed for Canastota, New York.
Don’t think it’s there anymore, what do you think?
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The above link doesn’t seem to work. And I agree that it doesn’t seem to be there anymore.
Works for me in 2 different browsers. Safari and Firefox…
I don’t see any building in the aerial view that looks like the theater building in the 1981 photo. This theater might have been exchanged for a parking lot.
You can recognize the brick building with four 2nd story windows to the right of the theatre in both the old photo and the current map. Where the theatre was you can now see a gray building which is two stories tall in front, but angles down to only one story tall in back. It’s obvious that the theatre is gone and replaced by this smaller building.