Streetview needs to be fixed. There was an older Empress here, built in the teens. It was demolished and the current structure built in 1936. It closed in 1988.
Actually, it was gone quite a while ago. It’s missing from the 2012 streetview. The sign in the empty lot claims its the future home of another theater, which looks like a sheet metal box in the drawing, but the satellite view shows the lot still empty.
Address is wrong, and this theater has been demolished. It was on 3rd, not 2nd. Was able to track it down because the old post office is visible in the photo. It’s now a parking lot. Address would have been 10xx (on the north side between 10th and 11th streets).
For an idea of what the ground floor may have looked like originally, the Matuska & Skalicky store next door was built to what looks like an identical design in 1909. Of course the storefront has been replaced, maybe around 1960, but the framing is original.
Description needs to be corrected. The Victory described has been demolished, and was downtown. There was probably no theater at all for at least a few years, and then they built this metal shed at a different address. Probably ought to split the listing.
Website is dead. New one appears to be: https://sites.google.com/view/windomstatetheater, and of course it has a FB page. The marquee is back up, looking less like it got thrown down a flight of stairs. Anyone know why the entire center of the façade is such a mess? Looks like it happened many years ago.
Was there over Memorial Day, and there was a sign saying the theater opens in June. Not sure when the season closes. Please adjust the streetview so it isn’t just a picture of a truck.
Streetview definitely wrong on this one. I suspect the address should be somewhere on E Main, because the small downtown was there. Almost certainly demolished.
I think the address might be wrong. The ‘mill’ is the Sullivan Hardware Co. warehouse, and an early ‘70s photo shows that parking lot already there. The HABS photo looks like it’s from the late '60s at the absolute oldest.
The ‘active’ website does say in the history that the theater was remodeled after a fire in the mid ‘30s. This is very obvious looking at it from the corner. Only the front 25% is plastered moderne, the rest looks like an old red brick commercial building with a lot of filled window openings.
I don’t know if we bother to list builders, but there’s a little bronze plaque in the wall that says it was constructed by the Morris-McKoy Building Co. of Greenville, SC.
Needs to be listed as demolished! I can’t make sense of the address. Odd is the north side of the street, and there’s nothing anywhere close to the three buildings shown in the photo. I guess they might all have fit in the parking lot next to the mill? If so, this must have been second from the corner.
Streetview is wrong. Needs to move up two blocks and turn the other way. Building must still be there. One of the storefronts south of the Sullivan hardware building.
Don’t know if it was the Rex, but the 1914 Sanborn map shows a theater in the ground floor of a lodge hall in the third building south of Marion on the east side. For streetview purposes, that would be south of that lonely metal shed. Marion east of Main is just a decaying strip of pavement petering out to dirt. The entire block on both sides was demolished a long time ago, probably due to flooding. From just south of Marion to about 2 blocks further north was downtown. There is one building left, along with a few undistinguished modern buildings.
Don’t know why I didn’t think of this before, but I went to the Sanborn maps. Theater building is at 106 (?) N 4th. Appears on the 1917 map. Same building on the 1909 map is plumbing/undertaking. Appears 1896 at the latest, may be on the 1890 map. If I’m reading the 1917 map right, street number may have been 124 at the time. Building looks like it was remodeled postwar. Flat red brick front with unusual canted display window and doors that look like they might have come off the theater. Usage might be vacant or possibly an apartment on the second floor.
Long gone, needs to be listed as demolished.
Streetview needs to be fixed. There was an older Empress here, built in the teens. It was demolished and the current structure built in 1936. It closed in 1988.
Actually, it was gone quite a while ago. It’s missing from the 2012 streetview. The sign in the empty lot claims its the future home of another theater, which looks like a sheet metal box in the drawing, but the satellite view shows the lot still empty.
According to streetview, this is now gone. Not sure why they bothered. Would probably have survived another 30 years in that climate.
Address of the post office is 1029, so maybe 1027?
Address is wrong, and this theater has been demolished. It was on 3rd, not 2nd. Was able to track it down because the old post office is visible in the photo. It’s now a parking lot. Address would have been 10xx (on the north side between 10th and 11th streets).
For an idea of what the ground floor may have looked like originally, the Matuska & Skalicky store next door was built to what looks like an identical design in 1909. Of course the storefront has been replaced, maybe around 1960, but the framing is original.
Description needs to be corrected. The Victory described has been demolished, and was downtown. There was probably no theater at all for at least a few years, and then they built this metal shed at a different address. Probably ought to split the listing.
Not that you can tell from this useless, terrible picture, but the interior is really nice.
Website is dead. New one appears to be: https://sites.google.com/view/windomstatetheater, and of course it has a FB page. The marquee is back up, looking less like it got thrown down a flight of stairs. Anyone know why the entire center of the façade is such a mess? Looks like it happened many years ago.
Was there over Memorial Day, and there was a sign saying the theater opens in June. Not sure when the season closes. Please adjust the streetview so it isn’t just a picture of a truck.
Streetview definitely wrong on this one. I suspect the address should be somewhere on E Main, because the small downtown was there. Almost certainly demolished.
I think the address might be wrong. The ‘mill’ is the Sullivan Hardware Co. warehouse, and an early ‘70s photo shows that parking lot already there. The HABS photo looks like it’s from the late '60s at the absolute oldest.
The ‘active’ website does say in the history that the theater was remodeled after a fire in the mid ‘30s. This is very obvious looking at it from the corner. Only the front 25% is plastered moderne, the rest looks like an old red brick commercial building with a lot of filled window openings.
I don’t know if we bother to list builders, but there’s a little bronze plaque in the wall that says it was constructed by the Morris-McKoy Building Co. of Greenville, SC.
Might be closed. Website listed is dead, and this one: actheatresc.org only has info through 2016.
Needs to be listed as demolished! I can’t make sense of the address. Odd is the north side of the street, and there’s nothing anywhere close to the three buildings shown in the photo. I guess they might all have fit in the parking lot next to the mill? If so, this must have been second from the corner.
Uselessly bad streetview. Of course, there doesn’t seem to be a Queen St, so that’s part of the problem. Must have been downtown somewhere.
As was pointed out ages ago, this needs to changed to demolished.
Streetview once again uselessly bad.
Streetview is wrong. Needs to move up two blocks and turn the other way. Building must still be there. One of the storefronts south of the Sullivan hardware building.
Map marker is at least 30 blocks too far north.
Needs to be listed as demolished. Really ugly ‘modern’ office building there now.
Don’t know if it was the Rex, but the 1914 Sanborn map shows a theater in the ground floor of a lodge hall in the third building south of Marion on the east side. For streetview purposes, that would be south of that lonely metal shed. Marion east of Main is just a decaying strip of pavement petering out to dirt. The entire block on both sides was demolished a long time ago, probably due to flooding. From just south of Marion to about 2 blocks further north was downtown. There is one building left, along with a few undistinguished modern buildings.
Don’t know why I didn’t think of this before, but I went to the Sanborn maps. Theater building is at 106 (?) N 4th. Appears on the 1917 map. Same building on the 1909 map is plumbing/undertaking. Appears 1896 at the latest, may be on the 1890 map. If I’m reading the 1917 map right, street number may have been 124 at the time. Building looks like it was remodeled postwar. Flat red brick front with unusual canted display window and doors that look like they might have come off the theater. Usage might be vacant or possibly an apartment on the second floor.