Utopia Theatre
Main Street,
Painesville,
OH
44077
Main Street,
Painesville,
OH
44077
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1927 image added via Larry Rose. Silent western film “Drums Of The Desert” on the Utopia marquee.
The July 26, 1912, issue of The American Contractor reported that a store building in Painesville would be remodeled into a motion picture theater for the Utopia Amusement Company. The architect was A. C. Wolfe of Cleveland.
The Cleveland Landmarks Commission’s list of Cleveland architects says that Alexander C. Wolfe (1880-1966) was active as an architect in Cleveland from 1911 to 1954.
The Utopia Theatre in Painesville was torn down in 1939, the same year the Lake Theatre was built, but the Utopia was not torn down to accommodate the Lake Theatre. They were on different streets. The Utopia on Main Street, and The Lake on State Street. Most of old downtown Painesville was lost in a serious urban renewal fiasco in the first half of the 1970’s.
Another old postcard view followed by a photo what the site looks like now (the Lake Theater is also gone).