Lovejoy Theatre
1020 E. Lovejoy Street,
Buffalo,
NY
14206
1020 E. Lovejoy Street,
Buffalo,
NY
14206
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Located on the corner of Lovejoy Street & Davey Street. Opened as the Lovejoy Palace Theatre in around 1909. It was later renamed Lovejoy Theatre, and was closed and demolished in the late-1940’s. A new Lovejoy Theatre was built on the site which closed in 1977. A supermarket was built on the site.
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Ken Roe
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The address of the Lovejoy Theatre that was listed in city directories in the 1920s was 1002 Lovejoy Street, which is still the address on the Cricket Wireless building today.
This document (a Microsoft Word file) about some of Buffalo’s silent era theaters quotes the minutes of the common council meeting of March 1, 1909, containing this information about the first Lovejoy Theatre:
It also says that the architect of the Lovejoy Theatre was P.L. Cimini. It also lists him as the architect of the nearby Avon Theatre.In addition, it says that the first Lovejoy Theater was demolished in the late 1940s, which I originally misread (or mis-remebered) as simply 1940.
Photo & description added credit Jim Retzer. The original Lovejoy Theater, circa 1919. A cherished snapshot from my personal collection.
TEMPTATION – a lost silent comedy film directed by Cecil B DeMille – was originally released 30 December 1915. It was also very successfully re-released in March of 1919. This fits in nicely with the information that the Lovejoy re-opened in 1919.
Closed or ads halted in the paper in 1977