Star Theatre

SethG on October 22, 2020 at 4:47 pm

Theater is demolished. The address was 205. It was in a large 4-story brick building (sometimes shown as three stories due to a mansard roof), constructed sometime before 1887 as the Bassett House, a large hotel that contained numerous businesses in the lower floors. The 1905 map shows 205 shared by the entrance to the hotel, a small, oddly-shaped pool room, and a bar and laundry in the rear, which was one story.

The theater lasted until 1911 at least, when they have the entire space. By 1920, the theater space is vacant. The building was torn down in the ‘70s, and is now a dreary gravel parking lot.