Empress Theatre
138 E. Main Street,
Danville,
IL
61832
138 E. Main Street,
Danville,
IL
61832
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This theater appears on the March 1909 Sanborn. It was located in a remodeled 2 story brick commercial building which was constructed sometime before 1884. The rear of this building was extended to install the stage. The building is still on the 1951 map, but this entire block was destroyed around 1980 for a really ugly supermarket and huge parking lot.
This likely opened as the Olympic Theatre in the 1900s and which was showing movies in 1910 according to the trade press. It’s the same address of the Empress Theatre which appears to have failed to make the transition to sound films.