Kai-Gee Theater
710 Main Street,
Rochester,
IN
46975
710 Main Street,
Rochester,
IN
46975
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The second moving picture theater to open in Rochester, IN was the Kai-Gee Theater (pronounced K-G). The name is supposed to mean “awful good” in Chinese. The owner was Earl Jessen. This theater opened in 1908 at 716 Main Street In 1913, the Kai-Gee Theater closed and re-opened at 710 Main St. The Kai-Gee Theater lasted another four years at its second location and closed for good in 1917.
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These abstracts of articles from issues of The Rochester Sentinel published in 1913 pertain to the second Kai-Gee Theatre. The first item is from the issue of Thursday, May 8:
The second item is from the issue of Tuesday, December 16:I’ve been unable to find anything about architect W. H. Kendrick. A moderately famous architect of that name practiced in England in the late 19th century, and a builder/architect named William H. Kendrick practiced in Tampa, Florida, in the late 19th-early 20th centuries, but the Rochester architect does not appear to have been either of them.The theater’s original home was an old two-story wood frame building which was constructed before 1885, and had most recently been a jeweler. It survived until sometime before 1942. I’ll add a picture of the second location.