Lincoln Theatre
126 E. Lincoln Avenue,
Goshen,
IN
46528
126 E. Lincoln Avenue,
Goshen,
IN
46528
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The Lincoln Theatre was opened around 1921.
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Bryan Krefft
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The address 126 E. Lincoln must have been on the south side of the street just west of 5th Street. There’s a parking lot taking up the whole half block from 5th Street to the alley now. The Lincoln Theatre is gone.
According to “The Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ” by Mr. David Junchen, pg. 629, the “Lincoln Th.” in Goshen, Indiana, had a Smith theatre pipe organ installed at some point.
No other information, such as size (# of manuals / # of ranks), install date, blower info, or nameplate (Seeburg-Smith, Smith, or Smith-Geneva) is given in the book, meaning that this info was not known at the time of publication.
Does anybody know any more about this organ, and where it, or its parts, is/are today?
Does anybody know any more about this theatre and know when it opened and when it was demolished?
Are there any interior or exterior photos?
Thanks!
The Lincoln Theatre was definitely in operation by mid-1921. Construction began in 1920, but I haven’t been able to discover if it opened late that year or early in 1921.
Still open in 1941.
The Lincoln Theatre opened in 1920 and its formative years were under Gavin Blair McElroy of Fitzpatrick and McElroy Circuit. Oscar Hansen took on the venue in 1926 unable to convert it sound later that decade. He sold it and the Jefferson to Warner Bros. Theatres of New York in 1930.
The Circuit put all of its refresh money to the Jefferson closing the Lincoln and dropping the lease. Floyd and Archie Robinson closed their nearby Circle Theatre and reopened the Lincoln on October 1, 1933. A year later Universal sued the Robinsons who transferred the operation to Jack Rose in 1934.
The venue appears to have received a new 20-year lease in 1940 along with a major streamline moderne makeover. The venue closed in the television era. The building was torn down in the Fall of 1969 in favor of parking.