Capitol Theatre
King Street,
Midland,
ON
L4R
King Street,
Midland,
ON
L4R
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Previous Names: Model Theatre
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Built on the site of the Model Theatre which opened in 1915 and was destroyed by fire in 1919. It was rebuilt and reopened again named Model Theatre which was opened prior to 1922. Around 1933 it was renamed Capitol Theatre. It was still open in 1943.
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Bryan Krefft
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Opened prior to 1922 as Model Theatre by Art Bugg, who had owned the Theatorium on King Street. King Street and Main Street were apparently one in the same. Multiple images added. I scrolled around King Street on Street View, and although there are a couple buildings that look like they could be it but with alterations, it is presumed demolished. (I also added a page for the Roxy also on King Street, which I will update once it gets posted.)
Additional history: October 11, 1963 photo added credit County Herald, description credit Huronia Museum and Huron Ouendat Village.
Huronia Museum - Photo of the Week - This (uploaded) photo was published in the County Herald on October 11, 1963. The Georgian Hotel is nearly gone. Originally called the Gladstane House, it was built in 1885 by Thomas Gladstane, Midland’s first postmaster. His general merchandise store which housed the post office is the empty lot to the right. For the last thirty years it had been the home of the Capitol Theatre. The hotel was purchased by Doctor Garnet Tanner in 1927, who remodeled and enlarged it from 30 to 80 rooms. In 1944 Tanner sold to his manager of seven years, William MacArthur. The construction appears to be triple-brick and the 1927 addition can be seen by the jog in the wall on the right. The contents had been auctioned off earlier. Construction of the new Dominion Store followed soon after.
Here’s an item from the April 5, 1919 issue of Moving Picture World:
Information in the summer, 2013 issue of the Huronia Museum’s newsletter (PDF here) indicates that the Model was in operation by 1915 at the location where the Capitol Theatre would later be, in a building that had been built around 1900.The Model Theatre and Arthur Bugg had both been mentioned in the April 6, 1918 issue of Canadian Moving Picture Digest. Earlier, the house had been operated by someone else, as the July 8, 1916 issue of Motion Picture News had mentioned “…Lieut. Bill Duncan, for many years in charge of the Model theatre, of Midland, Ont…..”
The restored Model Theatre was still operated by Arthur Bugg in 1929, when they were mentioned together in the March 23 issue of Universal Weekly.