Palace Theatre
Main Street,
Hector,
MN
55342
Main Street,
Hector,
MN
55342
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“In the Palace Theatre, Hector has a high-class movie house that is a credit to the village. Dr. A. M. Erickson, a well-known dentist of Hector, is the owner and manager. The Palace Theatre is housed in a good building, and has a seating capacity of 400. The moral tone of the theatre is high. Few theatres of so high a class are found in cities many times the size of Hector, and the establishment is a decided asset to the town.” (from “A History of Renville County” [1916])
Little else is known about this frame building including its exact location, and on Saturday afternoon, March 19, 1955, the Palace Theatre was destroyed by fire just hours before the evening program.
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The December 22, 1917, issue of The Moving Picture World mentions the Palace:
Something puzzling is that the Internet has a couple of pages about the theater department of the Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart schools presenting school plays at the Palace Theatre, 301 Main Street South, Hector. The Internet also gives that as the address of the Hector City Hall.Google Maps' street view of the location shows a modern building that looks nothing like a theater. It could be that the City Hall has a multi-purpose room both for council meetings and community events, and they call it the Palace Theatre when it’s used for the school plays. It’s a corner location, and might be on the site of the original Palace Theatre.