Star Theatre
222-224 Senca Street,
Oil City,
PA
16301
222-224 Senca Street,
Oil City,
PA
16301
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Located in the Odd Fellows Lodge I.O.O.F. Building, the Star Theatre was operating by 1914. It had closed by 1921. The I.O.O.F. Building still stands today.
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Ken Roe
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A July 16, 1921 article in The Moving Picture World gave the names of the four movie theaters then operating in Oil City, and the Star was not among them, so it must have closed by that time. The four houses in 1921 were the Venango, the Princess, the Lyric, and the Temple. The Temple, which was open by 1916, was at 230 Seneca, so if the Temple and Star’s periods of operation overlapped they were fairly near neighbors.
The Odd Fellows building may have been constructed around 1914-15. The architectural style certainly matches. The curious thing is that the Star is listed at 222-224 in the 1914-15 AMPD, but that was the address of the Orpheum, which is also listed, and was demolished to allow the Odd Fellows to be constructed. The building appears to be derelict today. If the address is accurate, the theater was in the southern half.
The building is not Colonial Revival. It is just a standard 1910s commercial building, perhaps with some Prairie influence.