Theatre
117 W. Main Street,
Elk Point,
SD
57025
117 W. Main Street,
Elk Point,
SD
57025
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A ‘Cheap Theatre’ appears on the 1912 Sanborn, located in an old two-story brick building. This was constructed between 1883 and 1892, apparently as an annex to the Merchants Hotel, which sat on the corner. The 1903 map shows it as a general store with hotel rooms above.
This was likely a quick conversion to cash in on the movie craze, and the 1917 map shows a beer wholesaler here. The building has suffered an unfortunate remodel, and is currently a bank.
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Seth Gaines
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This building could have been the location of one of the three theaters listed at Elk Point in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory. They were called the Gem, the Lyric and the Yale. The Gem and Yale were gone by early 1915, but the Lyric was at least still standing, though closed, and had been joined by the Florence Theatre, which of course might have been a new name for one of the other two houses.
A 1909 Polk business directory lists an Idle Hour Theatre, Maher & Hanson, proprietors, at Elk Point.