Star Theatre
910 Main Street,
Mount Vernon,
IL
62864
910 Main Street,
Mount Vernon,
IL
62864
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This theater was located in the eastern half of the Phoenix Block, a large 2-story brick structure constructed sometime before 1889. This had been the location of a local newspaper (the ‘Democrat’ and then the ‘Times’), and they maintained a printing operation on the second floor. The theater first appears on the June 1913 map. In 1908, the ground floor was a grocery. The depressing bank appears to be from the ‘70s.
A “40 years ago” feature in the January 8, 1960, issue of the Mt. Vernon Register-News noted that the owners of the Plaza Theatre had purchased the Star Theatre and would operate both houses.