Aer Dome
135 S. Wabash Avenue,
Howard,
KS
67349
135 S. Wabash Avenue,
Howard,
KS
67349
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This small outdoor theater appears on the 1912 Sanborn, on what had been a vacant lot in 1905. The fenced area was rather cramped and irregular.
Howard does not appear in the 1914-15 AMPD. The 1923 map is not available online, but this likely operated only briefly. The address is an estimate, and the site today is occupied by storefronts that appear to be from the 1920’s.
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Seth Gaines
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I’ve had no luck discovering anything about the Aer Dome, or the anonymous theater across the street, but I did find that the town’s later theater was on this same block. This web page has a bit about it, and a rather dark and blurry photo. It was next door south of the two-story brick building currently housing the Bear Den bar, and was built in 1925 as Crook’s Opera House, replacing an upstairs house of the same name that had burned. It was later called the Howard Theatre, and in 1940 was remodeled and renamed the Plaza Theatre.
Good find. Please add it. Howard is really sad. A lot of downtown is gone, and it looks like two more buildings are about to be demolished. Such a huge theater in a very small town doesn’t make much sense, but it lasted a long time.