Colonial Theatre
750 Wealthy Street SE,
Grand Rapids,
MI
49503
750 Wealthy Street SE,
Grand Rapids,
MI
49503
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N.P. and J.D. Winchell contracted with architects, the Benjamin Brothers to create the new-build Colonial Theater that opened on October 9, 1913. The theater at 752 Wealthy was next door to a busy Piggly Wiggly grocery store. However, it was not able to make the conversion to the sound era.
The Colonial Theatre was open by 1913, and was pictured in an article in the trade journal The Moving Picture World, issue of December 20 that year (clip of the article from Google Books.)
The 408-seat Colonial was designed by local architects Thomas Benjamin & Sons, Frank Van Der Til, and Blakslee Brothers.