Air Dome
N. Ardinger Street,
Hamilton,
MO
64644
N. Ardinger Street,
Hamilton,
MO
64644
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The Air Dome was opened on May 23, 1913. The 1916 Sanborn shows an ‘Air Dome’ on the east corner of N. Ardinger Street and Railroad Street. It’s unclear whether this is a name or description. The theatre had a tiny wooden ‘machine house’ on N. Ardinger Street, with a wooden stage at the other end. Seating was ‘open board’. The intersection no longer exists, but Railroad Street once ran directly west from where it appears on the other side of Davis Street, and curved slightly north after passing the alley (which is still there). The theater operated for 5 seasons, as it closed at the end of summer 1917. The 1909 map shows a broom factory operating out of a few small wooden shacks, and by 1920, construction of a now abandoned city library had begun there.
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Seth Gaines
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The Airdrome launched May 23, 1913 by C.S. Burger. It operated five summer seasons. But the operator of the Rex Theater, Mrs. Hugh McFee was happy enough with the ventilation of the Rex that she sold the lumber to H.D. Gillet in April of 1918 ending the Airdome’s run. That Airdome lumber was repurposed in country sheds.