Missouri Theatre
103 N. Main Street,
Clarkton,
MO
63837
103 N. Main Street,
Clarkton,
MO
63837
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Previous Names: Liberty Theatre
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The Liberty Theatre was listed as open in 1925. It was renamed the Missouri Theatre in 1943. The theatre seated 250 and closed when the new Keys Theatre opened in 1947.
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This item from the Saturday, January 6, 1917 issue of The American Contractor is probably the beginning of this theater. “Moving Picture Theater: 1 sty. 50 x110. Clarkton, Mo. Archt. Lindsay Archt. Co., 261 McCoy, Tanner bldg., Sikeston. Owner L. B. Mobley, Clarkton, taking bids. Brk. & stucco.” Liberty may have been the most popular name for new movie houses in the war year of 1917, and the June 30 issue of Music Trade Review that year said that construction had begun on a new movie theater in Clarkton. This must have been it.
The architectural firm was headed by Alvin Francis Lindsay, one of the region’s most prominent architects during the first half of the 20th century.