Folly Theatre

215 Walnut Street,
Port Gibson, MS 39150

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SethG
SethG on September 14, 2017 at 9:58 am

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.