Lehigh Palace Theatre

The trade press reported that the Leigh Palace Company announced this project in 1909 and then built the new Lehigh Palace Theatre in 1910 opening that year. It was located at 937 West Lehigh Avenue. The installation of a Kimball organ in 1916 was the impetus to raise prices from a nickel to a dime. Ten years after it had opened and likely at the beginning of a new 10-year lease, operator Carl Hess gave the Lehigh Palace a new front and box office as well as an interior refresh in 1920. It was purchased by the Stanley Circuit in 1925 which apparently made a decision to not equip the theatre for sound and closed it in 1929.