Colonial Cinemas
234 S. Main Street,
Mount Vernon,
OH
43050
234 S. Main Street,
Mount Vernon,
OH
43050
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Previously operated by: Carmike Cinemas, Cinema World, Cinemette Corporation of America
Functions: School
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There’s not a lot of information that I can find about this theater, so some of this information can be wrong. The Colonial Cinemas opened during the 1970’s as a twin-screener and was operated by Cinemette. It was later operated by Cinema World, and finally Carmike before closing in the mid-2000’s.
The former theater was then purchased by local benefactors and donated to the Central Ohio Technical College in 2006.
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Any additional information on this former Cinemette would be greatly appreciated, and will be updated as soon as we get information.
In an odd coincidence, the address 232-234 S. Main Street is shown as being occupied by “Motion Pictures” on the 1913 Sanborn map of Mount Vernon. All the theaters listed at Mount Vernon in the 1914-1915 AMPD were at other addresses, so whatever house was at this location didn’t last long. I don’t know when the building that housed the nameless theater was demolished, but it might have been torn down for the Colonial Cinemas project.
I just looked through three aerial views between 1958 and 1960, and it shows a parking lot, meaning that the old nameless theater was demolished many years before the Colonial Cinemas was built. The Colonial Cinemas had to be built at that parking lot site.