Folly Theatre
215 Walnut Street,
Port Gibson,
MS
39150
215 Walnut Street,
Port Gibson,
MS
39150
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The Folly Theatre was open in the early-1940’s with a seating capacity of 300. The Folly Theatre was much smaller than the Crystal Theatre located around the corner and down a block. The theatre was operated by Theatre Services. The Folly Theatre closed in the mid-1950’s which left the Crystal Theatre as the only operating theatre in Port Gibson. The building which housed the Folly Theatre is still standing, but its usage is unknown.
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The address must be wrong. 215 was a store, long ago demolished. In the 1979 NRHP listing, the pictures show it to be the Michael Ellis Dry Goods store, and it has obviously been that for a long time by then. A construction date of 1927 is given, and the building has large recessed shop windows that make it obvious it was built as a store. Nothing else on the block is a good candidate. A few of the older commercial buildings on the block are deep enough, but none really look like a theater, and most had clearly been occupied for many years by other businesses in the 1979 photos.