Ellis Theatre
1671 Ellis Street,
San Francisco,
CA
94115
1671 Ellis Street,
San Francisco,
CA
94115
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Opened as the Princess Theatre on August 31, 1907 with vaudeville. The April 1906 earthquake and fire which had devastated San Francisco had left the downtown area in ruins, and the Fillmore district became the new “downtown” for a while, resulting in several large theatres being built within a few square blocks of each other, among them the Princess Theatre and its next door neighbor, the Orpheum Theatre (later Garrick Theatre) (qv).
On October 14, 1935, the Princess Theatre re-opened as the Ellis Theatre and, as such, survived as a large, popular, third run Fillmore district house up until mid-1952 when the continuing deterioration of the neighborhood brought about its demise. It later became a church, and was finally torn down in the early-1970’s.
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Vintage photo as the Princess
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The Princess was one of five San Francisco theaters designed by the architectural firm of O'Brien & Werner (Matthew O'Brien and Carl Werner) that were listed in an ad for the firm in the 1907-1908 edition of Henry’s Official Western Theatrical Guide.