Palace Theatre
818 E. Main Street,
Richmond,
IN
47374
818 E. Main Street,
Richmond,
IN
47374
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The 1909 Sanborn shows a ‘5¢ Theatre’ operating in the western storefront of an old three story brick building constructed sometime before 1886. The Palace Theatre was opened by 1914. It was closed for a remodel in February 1920. It was still open in 1927, but had closed by 1928.
Later maps show this space returned to retail use. Unfortunately, a later map, presumably from the 1920’s, has been extensively altered by updates from 1937 to 1950, but this was likely gone within a few years, as larger purpose-built competition appeared.
The building had fallen into disrepair, and was covered in an ugly coating of cement, but the 2019 Google Street View shows it being restored.
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Seth Gaines
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Robert Hudson owned the Palace Theatre. He later operated the Richmond Theatre (nee Theatorium) and several other theaters. In February 1920 Hudson announced that the Palace would close for a few weeks for a thorough remodel.
Robert Hudson sold the Palace and Richmond theaters to local businessman Ora Monger on April 1, 1926. A month earlier Hudson sold his stock in the Tivoli Theater Corporation to the Circle Theater Company which proceeded to erect the Uptown Theater in Indianapolis. In July 1926 Hudson announced plans to build a new theater in Richmond, Ind. He also agreed to lease a new $200,000 neighborhood theater to be erected at Dearborn and Tenth in Indianapolis for twenty years. (This became Universal’s Rivoli Theatre.)