Cozy Theater
322 S. Main Street,
Pratt,
KS
67124
322 S. Main Street,
Pratt,
KS
67124
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Opened in February 1916.
Ken is looking into it. Might want to email him and let him know. Do you use Gmail? I do.
I haven’t gotten email notifications from Cinema Treasures for a couple of years now. I thought it was just an issue with my email service, but I guess not. I will usually check my recent comments for responses for a week or two after I make them. After that there are just too many to keep track of, but I will check the site’s “recent comments” page and click on theater names that seem familiar. Sometimes it pays off, but not often.
Thanks for all the research! It is frustrating that I am still not receiving notifications.
Useless aside, but the Westside Odd Fellows Lodge in Wichita was built in 1911, and is very similar in form. I assume that was a Terry effort as well.
As it turns out, the Phoenix was in not one but, sequentially, both of the small theaters on the 1911 Sanborn (one was also the first location of the Elite Theatre.) It now seems much less likely that Phoenix was ever an aka for the Cozy. We can trace the Cozy name back to at least as early as 1916, as it was advertised in the March 23 issue of the Pratt Daily Tribune that year.
Thanks for supplying an architect! I guess one of the two tiny theaters on the 1911 map must have been the Phoenix, unless this was the Phoenix before it was the Cozy. I do agree that this was probably the Cozy. Odd that both the 1914-15 AMPD and 1926 Yearbook seem to be missing theaters, especially ones that had been operating for a while.
The January 10, 1912 issue of Western Contractor had this notice about the Pratt IOOF hall: “PRATT, KAS., Dec. 30th., 1911-New I. O. O. F. Building The Committee will receive sealed bids up to the morning of February 5th, 1912, for a two story Brick building, 50 by 102 feet. C. W. Terry, Wichita, Kansas, Architect. For plans and specification apply to architect, or C. L. Cramer, Pratt. Kansas, secretary building Company. Bids must be accompanied by certified check for $150.00.”
I haven’t found the Phoenix Theater mentioned in any trade journals, but from at least 1919 to 1929 Pratt had a house called the Cozy Theatre. It was bought by Charles Barron in 1923, and last listed in the FDY in 1929. I think Cozy might have been an aka for the Phoenix. As the Cozy and Kansas were both in operation in 1924, and only the Kansas and this house at 322 S. Main appear on the 1924 Sanborn, I think this one has to have been the Cozy.