Grand Theatre
115 N. Main Street,
Fayette,
MO
65248
115 N. Main Street,
Fayette,
MO
65248
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The Grand Theatre operated well past the 1950s. A survey made in 1988 said that the Grand was then the oldest known operating theater in Missouri built expressly for the exhibition of motion pictures. The adjacent bank, which had owned the lot the theater was on since 1975, announced the building’s impending demolition in 1991, but the actual demolition took place in the summer of 1992. I haven’t been able to discover the date the house closed, but it could have been only shortly before the building was demolished.
This house had fournames. This article posted to the web site of the Columbia Daily Tribune says that a movie house opened on October 16, 1913, as “… the Alamo Theatre, eventually became the Dickinson Theatre, then the Fayette Theatre and finally the Grand Theater.”
After this theater was demolished, an old commercial building down the block was converted into a theater also called the Grand. The site of the original Grand is occupied by an extension of the Commercial Trust Company.