Princess Theater
408 N. Main Street,
South Boston,
VA
24592
408 N. Main Street,
South Boston,
VA
24592
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This theater has been open off and on at least for the first few years of my living in the area. The theatre looks to be much older than its 1930’s-1950’s Art Moderne facing. Almost all the buildings on that side of the street have the same look.
I know that the building on the corner of Main Street and Willburn Avenue was built around 1914. After seeing a first run film here about 3 years ago, and seeing the inside, I am presuming the theatre may date from around this time or the early-1920’s.
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Well, I made it up to South Boston and poked around Main Street for this theater. I believe I found the old Princess Theater, but its address is 532 Main Street. It was most recently Sobo’s Main Theater, but now it’s Sobo’s Bazaar.
Here are my pictures from December 2010.
The entry for architect A.O. Budina in the 1956 edition of the AIA’s American Architects Directory lists a Halifax Theatre in South Boston among his works for the year 1938. I found a single 1945 newspaper reference to the Halifax Theatre being located on North Main Street. The house is also mentioned in Boxoffice of October 9, 1954, the year CinemaScope equipment was installed.
As the AIA Directory doesn’t specify if the project was for a new theater or a remodeling, is it possible that the Princess was called the Halifax for a while? Perhaps its Art Moderne facade was Budina’s 1938 project.