Newton Air Dome
215 N. Main Street,
Newton,
KS
67114
215 N. Main Street,
Newton,
KS
67114
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This airdome first appears on the September 1909 Sanborn, in an area which was a vacant lot in 1901.
Originally a fairly basic fenced enclosure with a large tin-clad wooden stage at the rear, by 1915 it had become much more substantial.
Small brick stores now flanked the entry, and bleachers rose on each side of the stage. The theater was not listed in the AMPD, but may have operated until the early-1920’s.
It was definitely gone by 1924, when the current structure was built.
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Seth Gaines
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The May, 1909 issue of The Nickelodeon ran this item: “Newton, Kas.—J. A. Miller of Ottawa will erect an air-dome in Newton, which will be on a circuit with eleven other towns, as follows: Excelsior Springs, Leavenworth, Lawrence, Topeka, Emporia, Salina, Hutchinson, Wichita, Winfield, Arkansas City and Ottawa. The season will open about May 25 and continue until September 25.”