Colonial Theatre

This item from the Iowa news column of the February 1, 1913 issue of Motography is probably about this house. The Auditorium’s absence from the 1914-1915 directory might be either oversight or intermittent operation as a movie house during its early years: “Justice C. H. Jackson has leased the Auditorium at Mount Pleasant from the owner, Dennis Moreny, and will operate a moving picture show.” It looks as though the conversion of the church to a theater took place some time between 1909 and 1913, before it first began to operate as a movie house.