Ashland Theatre
203 England Street,
Ashland,
VA
23005
203 England Street,
Ashland,
VA
23005
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My buddy was interested in buying this place about 3 years ago, but when we inspected, we found that asbestos needs to be removed from the heating + cooling system. The seller refused to adjust his price to allow for the removal, so the deal fell through.
The interior lobby and bathrooms are in nice shape, but the projection area needs updating and there is no real concession area, due to there being a café adjoining the theater back when it was built.
Outside, on the eastern side of the theater, there are remnants of old washrooms, like the kind you see at gas stations, so the story about “colored only” bathrooms may be true.
It’s a great old theater, but it needs at least $50-100k to get it right, and that doesn’t include the asbestos removal.
This is another 1982 photo.
1981 photo of the Ashland Theatre.
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1982 photo of the AAshland Theatre.
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for sale $400,000
This is a 2008 photo.
Those type of listings make me suspicious. Sometimes the asking price is so high that they won’t publish it. You have to contact the real estate to receive the “sticker shock”.
I HATE LISTINGS WITH NO PRICE……….NO I AM NOT CALLING TO FIND OUT………………CRAZY…. FOR SALE BUT WE WONT TELL YOU THE PRICE!
Still for sale. LoopNet gives a seat count of 330 and year built as 1940.
theater for sale …loopnet
More info and photos of the Ashland here:
http://www.hanoverhumanesociety.org/theater.htm
The theater is “currently CLOSED due to repairs.”
This is a 2007 photo of the Ashland Theater.
There seems to be a film showing here almost every weekend for fund raising purposes for different worthy causes.It is great that this venue did not die off completely,as was the plan of some.
Nice color photo of the Ashland Theatre.
http://www.agilitynut.com/p/ashth.jpg
Here is a photo of the fully restored Ashland Theatre.
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I haven’t been up to see it yet, but the Ashland is apparently open and operating. The Hanover Humane Society is regularly (every weekend in Feb/Mar 2005) scheduling second-run films at the Ashland as benefits.
The latest schedule is posted here: View link
There is a phone number for movie info on that site.
Photo on this link:
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As a child I would spend my summers in Asland on my Grandparents farm. A small and decent theatre. During the 70’s The Ashland showed first run movies. During the 80’s it would become a second run dollar movie house. I belive the Rock Horror Pitcure Show ran there for several years.