Scottish Rite Auditorium
935 Wheeling Avenue,
Cambridge,
OH
43725
935 Wheeling Avenue,
Cambridge,
OH
43725
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Eight photos from 1937 and up added. Appears to have closed as a movie theatre in 1990.
Yeah, I can’t figure out that facebook page. It’s a complete mess. The title picture is the one in St. Louis, as are a few of the event photos. Getting FB to correct anything like that is a complete nightmare.
They appear to have had live events, all local in nature, a couple of times a year in recent years, some being pictured on their Facebook page, but the page has no listing of upcoming events. I would imagine the Masons hold their non-public meetings in the building, too, so it’s in use but not very usefully to anybody else.
A couple of photos on the Facebook page show the theater’s proscenium, another has part of the auditorium side wall in the background, and a third shows a bit of the back wall. It’s nice looking if fairly plain interior, and looks to be in good condition.
Rather bizarrely, their Facebook page has a link to a web site for a different Scottish Rite Auditorium in Collingswood, New Jersey.
Does this ever host any performances or show any films? Doesn’t seem to have a web page. Should probably be listed as closed.
The April 10, 1937, issue of The Film Daily said that he State Theatre in Cambridge, Ohio, had been opened by the Shea circuit. Shea also operated a house called the Cort Theatre in Cambridge at that time.
This theater is not closed; it has been renamed (as can be seen in the photo) as the Scottish Rite Auditorium and is used as a Masonic hall and as a rental auditorium.