The Vogue Theatre in Kelso was mentioned in the May 6, 1922 issue of Moving Picture World:
“J. H. Bomer, of the Vogue Theatre, Kelso, Wash., has disposed of his interests to Strange, Dunham and Greiner, who will incorporate under the name of Vogue.”
The Vogue was rebuilt in 1925 following a fire, as noted in this item from the July 11 MPW:
“The Vogue Theatre, Kelso, Wash., which was partially destroyed by fire some months ago, has been rebuilt and is about ready for its formal opening. B. F. Shearer, Inc., has completed installation of orange and black silk plush drapes which give a warm note of color to the house. A Raven Haftone screen was also placed by this firm.”
I’ve been unable to find either the Princess or the Liberty mentioned in the early trade journals, but by 1922 Garfield had a house called the Rose, mentioned in the August 12 issue of Universal Weekly. The Rose was mentioned again in the January 2, 1926 issue of Motion Picture News. It was then owned by F. C. Weskil, who operated the Liberty Theatre in Colfax and houses called the Rose in Colfax and Oakdale.
Many years later, the April 3, 1948 issue of Boxoffice mentions a house called the Family Theatre in Garfield.
The April 1, 1937 issue of Film Daily said that the Evergreen States circuit had acquired the Weir and D & R theaters in Aberdeen and the Seventh Avenue Theatre in Hoquiam.
The April 1, 1937 issue of Film Daily said that the Evergreen States circuit had acquired the D & R and Weir theaters in Aberdeen and the Seventh Avenue Theatre in Hoquiam.
The original Boz Theatre opened in 1909. This house, the New Boz, was built in 1910. W. Fred Bossner’s plans to build the new 600-seat theater were noted in the May 1, 1910 issue of The Nickelodeon.
According to the Pacific Coast Architecture Database, the Grand Theatre was designed by Edwin W. Houghton. The Aberdeen Herald reported on the opening, which had taken place on Thursday, April 19, 1906, in its issue of Monday, April 23:
“An Immense Audience Greets Blanche Walsh Thursday Night. The new Grand theater was filled from orchestra pit to gallery Thursday night to witness the performance of ‘A Woman in the Case’ by Blanche Walsh company. The new theater proved to be all that was promised, and in its arrangement and appointments is not excelled in the Northwest. The decorations showed the artistic taste of the architect, as the conveniences did his knowledge of theater building. The safety of the audience is particularity well looked after in the matter of exits. Those are sufficient to empty the house in three minutes. All sections of the county were represented at the opening, quite a number being present from Hoquiam, Cosmopolis, Montesano and Elma, and all are loud in praise of a theater of which Aberdeen is justly proud. While Blanche Walsh and company, carried their parts splendidly, the play, which was of melodramatic order, was not as well received as would have been something higher in dramatic art.”
The January 3, 1932 issue of Film Daily said: “Geneva, O.— The Liberty is now called Shea’s.” I think Shea’s must have bought the Liberty, which dated back to at least 1918, and then built a new theater a couple of years later. In FDY’s through the late 1930s both Shea’s and the Liberty are listed, but the Liberty is always listed as closed.
A 1947 ad for a Stafford’s Jewelry and Music Store at 52 West Main Street carries the tag line “Three doors down from Shea’s Theatre.” 52 W. Main is a parking lot now, but what would be three doors up the block at 72 W. Main is a large, red brick building that looks like it could have been built in the 1930s. The front section is fairly low, but behind it is a taller, rectangular building that is just the right size and shape to be a theater auditorium. It now houses the Geneva Community Center. I suspect that this was Shea’s Geneva Theatre.
Orwell had a house called the Temple in 1932, when this item appeared in the January 8 issue of Film Daily: “Orwell, O. — The Temple, now operated by W. L. Chalmers, is open Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday of each week.” Chalmers had recently bought the house from H. J. Walters. The theater had been around for quite a while by then, as it was advertised in the November 12, 1925 issue of the Orwell News-Letter (scan here.) The only theater listed at Orwell in the 1926 FDY was called the Opera House. This might have been an alternate name for the Temple.
Carl Reardon, Cleveland area distributor for Universal Pictures, was deposed for the U.S. Senate’s investigation of movie industry trade practices in 1956. As part of his deposition he noted that Lee Hendershott, then the owner of the Temple Theatre, had gotten a flat-fee service from Universal starting in February, 1956, paying $30 for each feature, with the exception of a few special movies that would still be rented on a percentage basis.
The Temple Theatre building is currently occupied by an antique shop.
1,022 was the reported seating capacity of the Leaf Theatre when it opened in 1949. The FDY probably accidentally switched the capacities of the two theaters. Such mistakes were not uncommon in the Yearbooks.
Motion Picture Herald of September 18, 1948 had this news:
“The new Rosalia Theatre, Rosalia, Wash., has opened. H. H. Wheeldon is the owner of the house, which replaces the theatre destroyed by fire several months ago. Mr. Wheeldon also operates five other houses in eastern Washington and Idaho.”
This probably accounts for the drop in seating capacity between the early 1940s and 1950. Although the item calls the house the Rosalia, I’m sure it was the Family. A 1951 Boxoffice item about Mr. Wheeldon said that he had leased his Family Theatres in two other towns to another operator. I suspect that all six of his theaters were called the Family.
The theater might have been at 606 S. Whitman Avenue (formerly Main Street.) Virtually all of Rosalia’s business are on Whitman Avenue, and this undated photo shows a theater, identifiable by the movie posters leaning against the front, at that location. Rosalia had a movie house at least as early as 1914, listed in the American Motion Picture Directory that year as the Lyric, on Main Street. The theater in the photo might have been the Lyric, and the Rose and later theaters might have been at different locations, but it’s possible that Rosalia’s theater was always at that location, even after the 1948 fire. Even if it was in a different building, it was almost certainly located on Whitman Avenue.
The Bungalow Theatre was at 223 N. Main Street. A historic building survey says that the Bungalow opened in 1911, but that the building had previously been occupied by a movie house called the Dime Theatre. The building currently on the site is believed to have been built in 1921, but it might have been only a major reconstruction and enlargement of the old building.
I found the Bungalow mentioned in the September, 1911 issue of Motography (also mentioning the Orpheum) and in the January 22, 1916 issue of Moving Picture World, which said that Robert Clendinning was remodeling the house and planned to reopen it with Mutual pictures.
The oddest thing is that the historic building survey says that the Sanborn insurance map shows a movie theater at this address as late as 1939. I’ll look into this surprising news when I have more energy. It’s getting very late now.
The Colfax Gazette of August 8, 1908 mentioned “The New Ridgeway Theatre Company.” A page about Spokane architect George Herbert Keith attributes the design of the Ridgway Theatre to him, listing it as a 1908 project. As the theater company apparently wasn’t formed until August, it might be that the Ridgeway didn’t open until 1909. The Ridgeway was one of three theaters listed at Colfax in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory, along with the Bungalow and the Pastime.
A walking tour of downtown Colfax says that the Rose Theatre opened in 1916. 1920 was the year of its remodeling by architect Gustav Pehrson. The Rose Theatre is mentioned in both the May 11 and the June 29, 1918 issue of Motography.
The Liberty Theatre had a temporary precursor, noted in the March 10, 1923 issue of Moving Picture World:
“On Saturday, February 17, Jensen & Von Herberg opened the Liberty Theatre in Astoria, Oregon. The house is said to be temporary, to be replaced later by a large, high-class theatre. The present structure seats 800.”
Oops. We already had a page for the Grand Theatre, listed at its last address on Commercial Street. I’ll move my comment there (with some additional information I came across after posting it.)
The Grand Theatre is listed in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory, though with the address 127 W. Holly Street. Two web sites have considerable information about the Grand: This web page from WhatcomTalk, with histories of several lost Bellingham theaters, and this page from the Puget Sound Theatre Organ Society. Each page features several photos.
The Grand was built to replace a smaller house of the same name that had opened in 1905 and was demolished in 1912 to make way for a new commercial building. The new theater was behind the new building and fronted on Commercial Street, though an entrance was retained on Holly Street. The house actually had two entrances, at 127 W. Holly and at 1224 Commercial Street. The Holly Street entrance served as the main entrance for much of the Grand’s history, but it was closed in 1957 and converted for retail use, so for the last few years of the theater’s life it was entered only from Commercial Street. The Grand’s last show, in 1973, featured the movie “Last Tango in Paris.” The building was demolished in 1974.
The Pacific Coast Architecture Database says that the Grand Theatre was designed by local architect Frederick Stanley Piper (firm name F. Stanley Piper), who also designed the Edison (Liberty/Egyptian) Theatre in 1914. Piper practiced in Bellingham from 1908 to about 1927, having immigrated from the U.K., where he had worked as a draughtsman in Plymouth. He had received an architectural degree from Blundell College, Tiverton, Devonshire, England, around 1900.
According to the Pacific Coast Architecture Database, “[t]he Bellingham architect James Zervas (1926-2010) was instrumental in saving the [Mount Baker] theatre from demolition and for renovating it as a community performing arts center.”
This web page with a history of some of Bellingham’s early theaters has a slightly different history of this house. It says that it opened in 1914 as the Edison Theatre, an 800-seat house equipped with an organ. The February 14th, 1916 ad for the Liberty uploaded to the photo page by rivest266 says “Formerly the Edison” on it (the September 30, 1912 ad for the Metropolitan says “Formerly Beck’s” on it, so that ad should be moved to the American Theatre’s photo page.)
The PSTOS page for the Liberty also confirms the Edison aka. The Pacific Coast Architecture Database says that the Edison Theatre was designed by the highly accomplished local architect Frederick Stanley Piper, who also designed the Grand Theatre. The WhatcomTalk page also says that the Egyptian Theatre closed in 1928 and was converted for retail space. The building was demolished in 1969.
A history of some of Bellingham’s theaters on this web page says that the Bell Show opened as a storefront nickelodeon in 1908. It was acquired by W. S. Quimby in 1910 and remodeled with a sloping floor and the admission price was raised to ten cents. The house was renamed the Rialto Theatre in 1921, but closed permanently in 1922.
The Grand Theatre is listed in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory, though with the address 127 W. Holly Street. Two web sites have considerable information about the Grand: This web page from the Whatcom Museum, with histories of several lost Bellingham theaters, and this page from the Puget Sound Theatre Organ Society. Each page features several photos.
The Grand was built in 1912 (one source says 1916, but that is belied by the 1914 AMPD listing) to replace a smaller house of the same name that had opened in 1905 and was demolished to make way for a new commercial building. The new theater was behind the new building and fronted on Commercial Street, though an entrance was retained on Holly Street. The house actually had two entrances, at 127 W. Holly and at 1224 Commercial Street. The Holly Street entrance was the main entrance for much of the Grand’s history, but it was closed in 1957 and converted for retail use, so for the last few years of the theater’s life it was entered only from Commercial Street. The Grand’s last show, in 1973, featured the movie “Last Tango in Paris.” The building was demolished in 1974.
The Grand briefly had an aka, Our Theatre, when it was one of many houses acquired in 1931 by Howard Hughes for his attempt to establish a theater chain, but Hughes abandoned the project the following year and the name Grand was restored.
The Paramount Theatre opened in February, 1929. Financial reverses due to the depression led to its closure in 1931. Local sources say that it reopened in 1933 as the Roxy Theatre, but that name never appears in the Film Daily Yearbook, so it may have been a very short-lived operation. In the 1936 FDY the Island Theatre makes its first appearance. As the Island, the house survived the other indoor theaters in Anacortes, operating into the 1970s. The theater was dismantled and the building converted into a bank in 1977.
A circa 1940 photo of the Empire can be seen on this web page from the Anacortes Museum. The text quotes a December 18, 1913 item from the Anacortes American saying that the new theater was scheduled to open Monday (December 22.) A Sanborn map shows a theater at the Empire’s location in 1907, but I’ve been unable to find any information about it, and the 1913 building appears to have been new construction.
The Empire underwent a thorough redecorating in 1927. In the 1940s, the local high school mounted its school plays on the Empire’s stage. In 1937, a local jewelry store moved into a storefront in the theater building, and in 1958 the store expanded into the entire theater space. The Empire is still listed in the Film Daily Year Book in 1951. I don’t have access to later editions, but the theater must have closed during that decade.
This web page from the Anacortes Museum has several photos in which the Rose Theatre appears. The Rose operated in two locations. Some of the photo descriptions on the Museum’s page say that the Rose was originally located at 509 Commercial Street, and in 1911 it moved to the block of Commercial between 5th and 6th. However, the photos themselves show the original Rose was on the west (even numbered) side of Commercial south of 6th Street, and the second location was on the east (odd numbered) side of Commercial south of 5th– in fact, at 509.
As near as I can tell from the photos, the original Rose was at 604 Commercial. I don’t know if the building there now, which has one of those godawful shingled fake mansards from the 1960s on it, is the same building the original Rose was in or not, but it could be. In any case, the second Rose at 509 Commercial was converted into a bowling alley in 1925, and the building was demolished in 1928.
The second, fourth and fifth photos on the museum’s page are close views of the original Rose at (probably) 604 Commercial, and the third and the second to last photos on the page are close views of the second Rose at 509 Commercial. The others (except the final one) are general street views with one or the other versions of the theater buildings as part of the scene. The last photo, taken from the steps of the Post Office in 1941, shows at far right part of the site of the second Rose, which by then had been demolished.
The Vogue Theatre in Kelso was mentioned in the May 6, 1922 issue of Moving Picture World:
The Vogue was rebuilt in 1925 following a fire, as noted in this item from the July 11 MPW:I’ve been unable to find either the Princess or the Liberty mentioned in the early trade journals, but by 1922 Garfield had a house called the Rose, mentioned in the August 12 issue of Universal Weekly. The Rose was mentioned again in the January 2, 1926 issue of Motion Picture News. It was then owned by F. C. Weskil, who operated the Liberty Theatre in Colfax and houses called the Rose in Colfax and Oakdale.
Many years later, the April 3, 1948 issue of Boxoffice mentions a house called the Family Theatre in Garfield.
The April 1, 1937 issue of Film Daily said that the Evergreen States circuit had acquired the Weir and D & R theaters in Aberdeen and the Seventh Avenue Theatre in Hoquiam.
The April 1, 1937 issue of Film Daily said that the Evergreen States circuit had acquired the D & R and Weir theaters in Aberdeen and the Seventh Avenue Theatre in Hoquiam.
The original Boz Theatre opened in 1909. This house, the New Boz, was built in 1910. W. Fred Bossner’s plans to build the new 600-seat theater were noted in the May 1, 1910 issue of The Nickelodeon.
The “New Theaters” column of the May 1, 1910 issue of The Nickelodeon mentioned the Casino Theatre, which was then very near completion.
The New Bijou Theatre advertised its opening that night in the April 29, 1908 issue of the Aberdeen Herald. The admission price was ten cents.
According to the Pacific Coast Architecture Database, the Grand Theatre was designed by Edwin W. Houghton. The Aberdeen Herald reported on the opening, which had taken place on Thursday, April 19, 1906, in its issue of Monday, April 23:
The January 3, 1932 issue of Film Daily said: “Geneva, O.— The Liberty is now called Shea’s.” I think Shea’s must have bought the Liberty, which dated back to at least 1918, and then built a new theater a couple of years later. In FDY’s through the late 1930s both Shea’s and the Liberty are listed, but the Liberty is always listed as closed.
A 1947 ad for a Stafford’s Jewelry and Music Store at 52 West Main Street carries the tag line “Three doors down from Shea’s Theatre.” 52 W. Main is a parking lot now, but what would be three doors up the block at 72 W. Main is a large, red brick building that looks like it could have been built in the 1930s. The front section is fairly low, but behind it is a taller, rectangular building that is just the right size and shape to be a theater auditorium. It now houses the Geneva Community Center. I suspect that this was Shea’s Geneva Theatre.
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Orwell had a house called the Temple in 1932, when this item appeared in the January 8 issue of Film Daily: “Orwell, O. — The Temple, now operated by W. L. Chalmers, is open Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday of each week.” Chalmers had recently bought the house from H. J. Walters. The theater had been around for quite a while by then, as it was advertised in the November 12, 1925 issue of the Orwell News-Letter (scan here.) The only theater listed at Orwell in the 1926 FDY was called the Opera House. This might have been an alternate name for the Temple.
Carl Reardon, Cleveland area distributor for Universal Pictures, was deposed for the U.S. Senate’s investigation of movie industry trade practices in 1956. As part of his deposition he noted that Lee Hendershott, then the owner of the Temple Theatre, had gotten a flat-fee service from Universal starting in February, 1956, paying $30 for each feature, with the exception of a few special movies that would still be rented on a percentage basis.
The Temple Theatre building is currently occupied by an antique shop.
1,022 was the reported seating capacity of the Leaf Theatre when it opened in 1949. The FDY probably accidentally switched the capacities of the two theaters. Such mistakes were not uncommon in the Yearbooks.
Motion Picture Herald of September 18, 1948 had this news:
This probably accounts for the drop in seating capacity between the early 1940s and 1950. Although the item calls the house the Rosalia, I’m sure it was the Family. A 1951 Boxoffice item about Mr. Wheeldon said that he had leased his Family Theatres in two other towns to another operator. I suspect that all six of his theaters were called the Family.The theater might have been at 606 S. Whitman Avenue (formerly Main Street.) Virtually all of Rosalia’s business are on Whitman Avenue, and this undated photo shows a theater, identifiable by the movie posters leaning against the front, at that location. Rosalia had a movie house at least as early as 1914, listed in the American Motion Picture Directory that year as the Lyric, on Main Street. The theater in the photo might have been the Lyric, and the Rose and later theaters might have been at different locations, but it’s possible that Rosalia’s theater was always at that location, even after the 1948 fire. Even if it was in a different building, it was almost certainly located on Whitman Avenue.
The Bungalow Theatre was at 223 N. Main Street. A historic building survey says that the Bungalow opened in 1911, but that the building had previously been occupied by a movie house called the Dime Theatre. The building currently on the site is believed to have been built in 1921, but it might have been only a major reconstruction and enlargement of the old building.
I found the Bungalow mentioned in the September, 1911 issue of Motography (also mentioning the Orpheum) and in the January 22, 1916 issue of Moving Picture World, which said that Robert Clendinning was remodeling the house and planned to reopen it with Mutual pictures.
The oddest thing is that the historic building survey says that the Sanborn insurance map shows a movie theater at this address as late as 1939. I’ll look into this surprising news when I have more energy. It’s getting very late now.
The Colfax Gazette of August 8, 1908 mentioned “The New Ridgeway Theatre Company.” A page about Spokane architect George Herbert Keith attributes the design of the Ridgway Theatre to him, listing it as a 1908 project. As the theater company apparently wasn’t formed until August, it might be that the Ridgeway didn’t open until 1909. The Ridgeway was one of three theaters listed at Colfax in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory, along with the Bungalow and the Pastime.
A walking tour of downtown Colfax says that the Rose Theatre opened in 1916. 1920 was the year of its remodeling by architect Gustav Pehrson. The Rose Theatre is mentioned in both the May 11 and the June 29, 1918 issue of Motography.
The Liberty Theatre had a temporary precursor, noted in the March 10, 1923 issue of Moving Picture World:
Oops. We already had a page for the Grand Theatre, listed at its last address on Commercial Street. I’ll move my comment there (with some additional information I came across after posting it.)
The Grand Theatre is listed in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory, though with the address 127 W. Holly Street. Two web sites have considerable information about the Grand: This web page from WhatcomTalk, with histories of several lost Bellingham theaters, and this page from the Puget Sound Theatre Organ Society. Each page features several photos.
The Grand was built to replace a smaller house of the same name that had opened in 1905 and was demolished in 1912 to make way for a new commercial building. The new theater was behind the new building and fronted on Commercial Street, though an entrance was retained on Holly Street. The house actually had two entrances, at 127 W. Holly and at 1224 Commercial Street. The Holly Street entrance served as the main entrance for much of the Grand’s history, but it was closed in 1957 and converted for retail use, so for the last few years of the theater’s life it was entered only from Commercial Street. The Grand’s last show, in 1973, featured the movie “Last Tango in Paris.” The building was demolished in 1974.
The Pacific Coast Architecture Database says that the Grand Theatre was designed by local architect Frederick Stanley Piper (firm name F. Stanley Piper), who also designed the Edison (Liberty/Egyptian) Theatre in 1914. Piper practiced in Bellingham from 1908 to about 1927, having immigrated from the U.K., where he had worked as a draughtsman in Plymouth. He had received an architectural degree from Blundell College, Tiverton, Devonshire, England, around 1900.
According to the Pacific Coast Architecture Database, “[t]he Bellingham architect James Zervas (1926-2010) was instrumental in saving the [Mount Baker] theatre from demolition and for renovating it as a community performing arts center.”
This web page with a history of some of Bellingham’s early theaters has a slightly different history of this house. It says that it opened in 1914 as the Edison Theatre, an 800-seat house equipped with an organ. The February 14th, 1916 ad for the Liberty uploaded to the photo page by rivest266 says “Formerly the Edison” on it (the September 30, 1912 ad for the Metropolitan says “Formerly Beck’s” on it, so that ad should be moved to the American Theatre’s photo page.)
The PSTOS page for the Liberty also confirms the Edison aka. The Pacific Coast Architecture Database says that the Edison Theatre was designed by the highly accomplished local architect Frederick Stanley Piper, who also designed the Grand Theatre. The WhatcomTalk page also says that the Egyptian Theatre closed in 1928 and was converted for retail space. The building was demolished in 1969.
A history of some of Bellingham’s theaters on this web page says that the Bell Show opened as a storefront nickelodeon in 1908. It was acquired by W. S. Quimby in 1910 and remodeled with a sloping floor and the admission price was raised to ten cents. The house was renamed the Rialto Theatre in 1921, but closed permanently in 1922.
The Grand Theatre is listed in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory, though with the address 127 W. Holly Street. Two web sites have considerable information about the Grand: This web page from the Whatcom Museum, with histories of several lost Bellingham theaters, and this page from the Puget Sound Theatre Organ Society. Each page features several photos.
The Grand was built in 1912 (one source says 1916, but that is belied by the 1914 AMPD listing) to replace a smaller house of the same name that had opened in 1905 and was demolished to make way for a new commercial building. The new theater was behind the new building and fronted on Commercial Street, though an entrance was retained on Holly Street. The house actually had two entrances, at 127 W. Holly and at 1224 Commercial Street. The Holly Street entrance was the main entrance for much of the Grand’s history, but it was closed in 1957 and converted for retail use, so for the last few years of the theater’s life it was entered only from Commercial Street. The Grand’s last show, in 1973, featured the movie “Last Tango in Paris.” The building was demolished in 1974.
The Grand briefly had an aka, Our Theatre, when it was one of many houses acquired in 1931 by Howard Hughes for his attempt to establish a theater chain, but Hughes abandoned the project the following year and the name Grand was restored.
The Paramount Theatre opened in February, 1929. Financial reverses due to the depression led to its closure in 1931. Local sources say that it reopened in 1933 as the Roxy Theatre, but that name never appears in the Film Daily Yearbook, so it may have been a very short-lived operation. In the 1936 FDY the Island Theatre makes its first appearance. As the Island, the house survived the other indoor theaters in Anacortes, operating into the 1970s. The theater was dismantled and the building converted into a bank in 1977.
A circa 1940 photo of the Empire can be seen on this web page from the Anacortes Museum. The text quotes a December 18, 1913 item from the Anacortes American saying that the new theater was scheduled to open Monday (December 22.) A Sanborn map shows a theater at the Empire’s location in 1907, but I’ve been unable to find any information about it, and the 1913 building appears to have been new construction.
The Empire underwent a thorough redecorating in 1927. In the 1940s, the local high school mounted its school plays on the Empire’s stage. In 1937, a local jewelry store moved into a storefront in the theater building, and in 1958 the store expanded into the entire theater space. The Empire is still listed in the Film Daily Year Book in 1951. I don’t have access to later editions, but the theater must have closed during that decade.
This web page from the Anacortes Museum has several photos in which the Rose Theatre appears. The Rose operated in two locations. Some of the photo descriptions on the Museum’s page say that the Rose was originally located at 509 Commercial Street, and in 1911 it moved to the block of Commercial between 5th and 6th. However, the photos themselves show the original Rose was on the west (even numbered) side of Commercial south of 6th Street, and the second location was on the east (odd numbered) side of Commercial south of 5th– in fact, at 509.
As near as I can tell from the photos, the original Rose was at 604 Commercial. I don’t know if the building there now, which has one of those godawful shingled fake mansards from the 1960s on it, is the same building the original Rose was in or not, but it could be. In any case, the second Rose at 509 Commercial was converted into a bowling alley in 1925, and the building was demolished in 1928.
The second, fourth and fifth photos on the museum’s page are close views of the original Rose at (probably) 604 Commercial, and the third and the second to last photos on the page are close views of the second Rose at 509 Commercial. The others (except the final one) are general street views with one or the other versions of the theater buildings as part of the scene. The last photo, taken from the steps of the Post Office in 1941, shows at far right part of the site of the second Rose, which by then had been demolished.