Aer Dome

135 S. Wabash Avenue,
Howard, KS 67349

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SethG
SethG on April 7, 2026 at 9:40 am

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.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on April 7, 2026 at 2:01 am

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.