Colonial Theatre
95 Main Street,
Keene,
NH
03431
95 Main Street,
Keene,
NH
03431
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The Theatre Historical Society archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Colonial, it’s Card # 490. Address is Main St. There is an exterior photo taken Feb. 1941. Condition is Good. The report says it opened about 1925, and is showing MGM films. There were 750 orchestra seats and 250 balcony seats.
I went to this theater around fall 1980 with my girlfriend Margaret while visiting the college in Keene.
I seem to remember the seats were wooden – no padding. And it was chilly. Glad to see it is still open and apparently thriving.
The Colonial will once again be presenting a Spooktacular on Sunday, October 30th at 3pm, with a 35mm screening of FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN.
Thanks Chuck,more great pictures.
Nice photos of the Colonial.
Here are links to several new photos of the Colonial taken on October 13, 2008 on a recent trip to Keene. Here’s the front Marquee View link Here’s the nameplate at the top of the building View link Here’s a pic of a truck loading/unloading stuff at the backstage loading dock View link And here’s a pic of the back showing the upgraded heating/AC system View link
The Colonial will be screening a 35mm print of THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES on October 30, 2008 as “The Colonial Theatre Spooktacular”:
http://thecolonial.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=150335
The Colonial Theatre is not Art Deco, it’s colonial revival.
From the Historical Society of Cheshire Contry website:
“Charles C. Baldwin opened his Colonial Theatre on January 29, 1924, and celebrated the event by entertaining 6,000 people free in the new facility. The new theater caught on as a popular meeting place, as the Woman’s Club held their Washington’s Birthday celebration there in February.”
There is a Scenic Theatre, 106 Main Street, Keene, NH listed in Film Daily Yearbooks 1941 and 1943 (800 seats) and in the 1950 edition seating is given as 657.
Was there a theatre in Keene named the Scenic?