Kimmel Theatre

212 2nd Street,
Henderson, KY 42420

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Previously operated by: Warner Bros. Circuit Management Corp., Wilby-Kincey

Styles: Colonial Revival

Previous Names: PrincessTheatre

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Kimmel Theatre

Opened as the Princess Theatre in 1914. By 1920 it was owned by Leo Keiler. In 1941 it became the Kimmel Theatre. Over the years it was operated by Henderson Theatres, Warner Bros. and Wilby-Kincey.

The Kimmel Theatre was destroyed by a fire on 14, February 1943.

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Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on July 21, 2023 at 4:32 pm

The March 20, 1915 issue of Moving Picture World mentioned a Princess Theatre at Henderson which had opened “…over a year ago….” A house called the Princess was listed at Henderson in the 1914-1915 American Motion Picture Directory, unfortunately without an address. An article in the February 21, 1943 Louisville Courier-Journal noted the recent destruction by fire of the Kimmel Theater at Henderson.

It looks like we’ve got the theater’s names out of sequence. The house opened as the Princess by early 1914 and became the Kimmel much later. This must have been in 1941, as the Princess is last listed (though as closed) in that year’s FDY, and the Kimmel first appears in the 1942 edition. Both were listed with 523 seats.

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