State Theatre
112 W. 5th Street,
Carroll,
IA
51401
112 W. 5th Street,
Carroll,
IA
51401
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This was located in a large commercial building constructed sometime between 1888 and 1893. The 1909 map shows a general store here. This entire block was destroyed in the demented urban renewal craze, and replaced by some incredibly depressing one story structures.
The ugly ‘new’ Carroll is not across the street, but at the other end of the block.
Opened as the Royal Theatre at least as of 1913. Pioneer Theatres Corporation took on the Earle and the Royal. Pioneer renovated the Royal in 1936 and rebranded it as the State Theatre. It would then build Carroll Theatre where the Earle was destroyed by fire in 1945. Pioneer shuttered the State Theatre in 1952. The theatre building would be demolished but just across the street, the multiscreen Carroll Theater would entertain the community for decades.
Given its late 1936 reopening, the State might have been the theater that was mentioned in the September 12 issue of The Film Daily that year. The item said that Pioneer Theatres was remodeling the Royal Theatre at Carroll. There would be a new front, boxoffice and marquee, and the interior would be redecorated. The item said that the house would be renamed, but did not say what the new name would be.
reopening ad from October 21st, 1936 uploaded here.