Electric Theatre

The Electric Theatre was an early downtown showplace, established by cinema entrepeneur Adolph Alfieri of Racine, Wisconsin. On January 15, 1907 the Kenosha Evening News announced that Alfieri (a brother-in-law of his partner Charles Pacini, another active Kenosha exhibitor [qv]) expected to ready to open in about mid-February. The building itself was owned by Helen Nicoll, a widow of John Nicoll, and no lease arrangements were ever recorded with the Kenosha County Register of Deeds. By 1908, Pacini had left the partnership.

The Electric Theatre offered a change of program every Wednesday and Saturday. Admission was five cents. By 1909, Alfieri closed the Electric Theatre and opened the new Palace Theatre at 302 Main Street. The 1910 Wright’s Kenosha City Directory listed the former Electric Theatre building as vacant. (Thanks to Al Westerman for researching Kenosha’s Electric Theatre.)

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