Park Theatre

Joe Vogel on November 14, 2025 at 6:56 pm

This web page has a list of historic businesses in Johnstown. It places the Park Theatre at 425 Main Street. It also lists the Knights of Pythias Temple at 427 Main Street. This is significant due to this item from the October 27, 1917 issue of Motography:

“Enlarging Johnstown House

“The firm of Sherer & Kelly has taken a lease from the Pythian Temple Association of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on the theater on the first floor of the Pythian Temple building. Work has been started to enlarge the theater from its present seating capacity of 500 to 1,000. It is planned to throw the new Temple Theater, as it is to be called, open to the public about the first of the year.”

I’ve been unable to discover if this house ever operated under the proposed name of Temple Theatre, nor have I discovered the name of the predecessor theater in the same building, but I have seen a photo (Facebook) of the Park Theatre confirming that it was indeed on the ground floor of the Pythian Temple Building.

SethG on August 20, 2021 at 10:42 am

The 1913 map has a large house on this corner. The next map is a 1949 update, so not terribly helpful pinning down a date, but the building likely dates from the early ‘20s.