Midelburg Theatre

Cmanni on June 13, 2019 at 9:54 pm

According to the local paper, the building was torn down after a partial collapse. https://www.loganbanner.com/news/demolition-of-sayer-building-begins-in-downtown-logan/article_27cbcfa1-8c7e-5d41-b1bf-85b894b16942.html?fbclid=IwAR1Dn5aS7kL5v6j-WSy7Bx9B8Wsh66oSPf6S5vLonzalUGLEMhx5_YYQZDg

Joe Vogel on September 27, 2012 at 8:07 pm

Here is an item from the March 2, 1918, issue of the trade journal Motography:

“Architects C. C. and E. A. Weber, Citizens' Building, Cincinnati, O., have prepared plans for the construction of a $35,000 theater three stories in height for Frank Middleburg of Logan.”

Despite the misspelling of Mr. Midelburg’s name, the item must be about this theater.

Joe Vogel on January 9, 2012 at 6:04 pm

Here is a more recent photo of the former Midelburg Theatre. A comment says that the theater was converted into a department store, but doesn’t say when. (A snippet view of the 1964 Motion Picture Almanac lists the Capitol, Logan and Midelburg Theatres at Logan, but I don’t know if all three were still open at that time.) At the time the Flickr comment was made (41 months ago) the building was vacant.

The obituary of Ferdinand Midelburg in the June 17, 1950, issue of The Billboard described him as the “…owner of a chain of Kentucky and West Virginia theatres, with headquarters in Logan, West Va….”