Theatre
12 S. 6th Street,
Estherville,
IA
51334
12 S. 6th Street,
Estherville,
IA
51334
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The theater appears on the 1920 Sanborn, in the northern storefront of a large two-story brick commercial building that was constructed between 1900 and 1907. The 1913 map shows plumbing located here.
This would have been a decent sized location, but not nearly as spacious as the Grand Theatre, located one block north. A population of about 7,500 was likely sufficient to support both.
It’s unknown when this closed, but it was many years ago. The building appears to have been remodeled at some point postwar into one larger store on the ground floor. In recent years, some of the worse remodeling has been removed, and this part of the building now houses a coffee shop.
Contributed by
Seth Gaines
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Sadly, the only theater I’ve been able to find mentioned at Estherville in the trade journals or the directories available online is the Grand. This other theater wasn’t there in 1914-1915 and was gone by 1926, and there aren’t any Estherville newspapers from that period online. For now, this house seems likely to remain nameless.