Royal Music Hall

520 E. Capitol Street,
Jackson, MS 39201

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DavidZornig
DavidZornig on May 27, 2021 at 11:19 am

Status should be updated to Demolished. A two story building now stands in it’s place.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on November 19, 2013 at 2:02 pm

This theater has been entirely demolished, as long ago as 1961 according to Movie Theaters in Twentieth-Century Jackson, Mississippi, by Jerry Dallas (PDF here.)

The Century Theatre can be seen in this vintage postcard. It was in the third building from the corner of President Street. The corner building is still standing, but the next two buildings have been replaced by a parking lot.

CSWalczak
CSWalczak on October 21, 2012 at 9:45 pm

As this photo shows, there was a fire at the closed theater on 07-13-60. It really should be listed as the Royal Music Hall with the Century as an AKA, inasmuch as Royal Music Hall was its name at the theater’s closing.

Joe Vogel
Joe Vogel on October 21, 2012 at 8:11 pm

According to Movie Theatres in Twentieth-Century Jackson, Mississippi, by Jerry Dallas, (Google Documents link) the Century Theatre opened in 1901 as a playhouse. In 1913, it began showing movies intermittently, when no live performances were scheduled, and thereafter movies gradually displaced most of the live events.

The Century Theatre closed in mid-1950, but was extensively renovated and reopened by the end of that year as the Royal Music Hall which, despite its name, was a movie house. Its early success was not long sustained, however, and the Royal closed its doors on June 4, 1959, finally ending the building’s history as a theater.