Regent Theatre
401 N. Main Street,
Eureka,
KS
67045
401 N. Main Street,
Eureka,
KS
67045
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If this was the theater intended to be constructed in 1923, then the correct address was 401 N Main. The 1917 map shows a lumber yard on that corner, and the ugly bank here today might be from about 1980. If this was indeed the Regent, then my listing has the wrong name. I don’t have access to any Sanborn after 1917, but there were at least two. If anyone can access them, we can be more sure.
The Regent opened in April 1923, and was first operated by Mead Theatres.
The 350-seat Regent Theatre is the only house listed at Eureka, Kansas in the 1926 FDY. The absence of the Princess was probably an oversight, as there was a movie theater on that theater’s site as early as 1917, while the name Princess appears in trade journals as early as January, 1925, and the Princess is listed in later editions of the FDY. In 1923 a new theater was proposed on the northwest corner of 4th and Main, though I’ve been unable to confirm that the project was carried out. If it was, then it might have been the Regent.