Royal Theatre
120 S. Randolph Street,
Garrett,
IN
46738
120 S. Randolph Street,
Garrett,
IN
46738
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Once Remodeled On August 4, 1930.
1930s photo added credit Willennar Genealogy Center: A Service of Eckhart Public Library. The building to the left of the vertical clothing store sign would have housed the Royal Theatre. Current street view confirms this, with the 3 lots to the left of the bay window, now comprising the 120 S. Randolph Street address.
A New Royal Theatre was formally opened on March 16, 1921, according to the following day’s issue of the Garrett Clipper. The new house had 500 seats, and the March 15 issue of the Fort Wayne News and Sentinel said that the 500-seat theater rapidly nearing completion on Randolph Street in Garrett had been designed by architect A. M. Strauss.
For the first couple of years the house advertised itself as the New Royal Theatre. I’ve been unable to discover if the New Royal was on the same site as the original Royal, or (if it was) it incorporated any of the original theater’s structure.