Grand Theatre

115 N. Main Street,
Fayette, MO 65248

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Previously operated by: Dickinson Theatres, H.J. Griffith Theaters Inc.

Functions: Office Space, Retail

Previous Names: Alamo Theatre, Dickinson Theatre, Fayette Theatre

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Grand Theatre

Opened in 1913 as the Alamo Theatre. It later became the Dickinson Theatre and by 1940 it was the Fayette Theatre with seating listed at 450, operated by the H.J. Griffith Theaters Inc. chain. It last operated as the Grand Theatre and closed in the late-1980’s and was demolished in summer of 1992. It was located a few doors from the now Grand Theatre on the town square.

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Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on May 14, 2018 at 1:31 pm

This house had fournames. This article posted to the web site of the Columbia Daily Tribune says that a movie house opened on October 16, 1913, as “… the Alamo Theatre, eventually became the Dickinson Theatre, then the Fayette Theatre and finally the Grand Theater.”

After this theater was demolished, an old commercial building down the block was converted into a theater also called the Grand. The site of the original Grand is occupied by an extension of the Commercial Trust Company.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on July 29, 2023 at 5:52 pm

The Grand Theatre operated well past the 1950s. A survey made in 1988 said that the Grand was then the oldest known operating theater in Missouri built expressly for the exhibition of motion pictures. The adjacent bank, which had owned the lot the theater was on since 1975, announced the building’s impending demolition in 1991, but the actual demolition took place in the summer of 1992. I haven’t been able to discover the date the house closed, but it could have been only shortly before the building was demolished.

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