Elite Theatre

A 600-seat Opera House is listed at Hoisington in the 1904 Polk Kansas Gazetteer. A history published in 1912 says that the Peoples State Bank purchased the J. B. McCauley Opera House Building in May, 1904, installing their office on the ground floor and immediately expanding the Opera House itself. I haven’t found Hoisington listed in any editions of the Cahn guide other than 1913, which says only “details not at hand.” The Crystal is listed in the 1914 Gus Hill guide, but that appears to be Hoisington’s only other appearance in a theatrical guide.