Bijou Theatre

200 S. Main Street,
Ottawa, KS 66067

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SethG
SethG on May 17, 2025 at 2:10 pm

I’m not sure where this would have been. The corner is 202. There is no 200, even though it makes more sense. 202 ½ is the upstairs. The 1912 map doesn’t show anything upstairs. The space at 202 was occupied by a clothing store from 1895 through at least 1912 (the remaining bay window says ‘H.L.T. Skinner Clothier’ at the top), and there were some small spaces at the rear which faced W 2nd St. The left hand side of the building, 204, had a more varied history, and the theater might have been there, although again it would have closed by 1912.

SethG
SethG on May 17, 2025 at 2:09 pm

I’ve added a picture. Some moron put cladding on the left hand side sometime around the ‘60s, so that bay is missing.