Electric Theatre
100 E. 4th Avenue,
St. John,
KS
67576
100 E. 4th Avenue,
St. John,
KS
67576
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When the Opera House opened in 1906, it was moving pictures that St. John residents clamored for. The Electric Theatre launched February 11, 1909 as the town’s first dedicated movie theatre. It opened in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) building on the North Side of St. John’s downtown square.
When the Palace Theatre opened in February of 1913, the competing Electric Theatre would cease operations later in the year. The IOOF building was still on the square in the 21st Century.
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This address is impossible. The ‘even’ side of 4th is the town square park. The Odd Fellows was at 105. It was a two story brick building. A market and grocery appears on the 1908 map, and the 1914 map shows furniture and stoves. The current structure is a replacement. The only surviving piece of the old building is the stone tablet on the facade. Status should be demolished.