Jonesville Theater
E. Chicago Street and Maumee Street,
Jonesville,
MI
49250
E. Chicago Street and Maumee Street,
Jonesville,
MI
49250
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This theater stood where the current Saulk theater stands. Notice the carriage house accross the alley behind the theater. It still stands.
It appears that the new theater was built using some of the existing walls. The current stage house retains many elements of the old theater.
There is no Main Street in Jonesville today. The theater was most likely located on the thoroughfare that is now called Chicago Street, along one block of which most of the town’s old commercial buildings are situated. As the fire report said that the blaze threatened an entire business block, I think the theater must have been on E. Chicago Street between Maumee Street and Water Street. That’s the only block in town that shows signs of having been pretty solidly built up with commercial buildings at that time.
The fire that destroyed the Jonesville Theatre took place in the early morning hours of March 11, 1932, according to the report in that days edition of The Battle Creek Enquirer and The Evening News: