Palace Theatre
314 S. Austin Street,
Seguin,
TX
78155
314 S. Austin Street,
Seguin,
TX
78155
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Built in the late-1940’s right off the heart of downtown Seguin, near the park, this stylish, classic Art Deco Moderne style theatre has long been a popular attraction for theatre-goers. Seating was provided for 950.
Closed in 2002, the theatre was later reopened.
However, there is the new King Ranger multiplex theatre out near the H-E-B Grocery Mall shopping center, near the 123 Bypass Highway and Court Street which is competition for the Palace Theatre.
By 2010, the Palace Theatre had been twinned.
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Donald John Long
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A 2008 photo can be seen here.
This is a June 2008 photo.
Here is a July 2008 photo.
Another photo can be seen here.
The Palace can be seen in this 2009 photo.
Here are some 1984 photos:
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This is a recent photo of the Palace.
The Palace has two screens, not one as this is a twin cinema. Main one has 350 seats and the upstairs has 160 seats. It’s very active now and its new Web page is at www.seguintheatres.com
I’m wondering if an item in the Daily Bulletin of the Manufacturer’s Record for March 12, 1907, could be about the theater on the Palace’s site that was destroyed by an explosion in 1947? It says:
The Palace looks to be about that size.I considered the possibility that the 1907 project was the Kempenstein Opera House, which, according to advertisements reproduced in this book, opened in 1908, but the web site of the Seguin Heritage Museum says that the opera house was upstairs in a building built in 1898.
Still, the Kempenstein Theatre is the only theater listed for Seguin in the 1909-1910 edition of Julius Cahn’s Theatrical Guide, so perhaps the 1907 project was never carried out. But then maybe Julius Cahn was simply never notified of its existence by the mystery theater’s operators. Does anyone have any clues?
It sounds like there was a fire — and the theatre was rebuilt in 1947