Richmond Theatre
620 E. Main Street,
Richmond,
IN
47374
620 E. Main Street,
Richmond,
IN
47374
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Previous Names: Theatorium
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The Theatorium opened in late-February/early-March 1907 when it was operated by Jao. H. Broomhall and played 20 performances a day. This was another ‘5¢ Theatre’ appearing on the 1909 Sanborn, where it was located in the ground floor of a three-story brick commercial building, constructed sometime before 1886. The space was a millinery on the 1901 map. Doubtless another short-lived operation, the space returned to retail use in later years.
It was reopened as the Richmond Theatre on December 20, 1919 with Lew Cody in “The Broken Butterfly” and Jack Cooper in “The Merry Jailbirds”. The Richmond Theatre was closed in January 1927.
In August 1927 the Buehler brothers planned to convert the building into a meat market. The building still appears on the 1955 map. But what was once a solid block of fine three to five story buildings, several with stone fronts, is now a dismal collection of unsightly post-war architecture.
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The Theatorium opened in late February/Early March 1907.
The space occupied by the Theatorium re-opened on December 20, 1919, as the Richmond Theatre. “The Broken Butterfly” was its premiere feature. The Richmond Theatre closed in January 1927. In August 1927 the Buehler brothers announced plans to remodel the building for use as the new home of their meat market.
Forrest Mills managed the showplace in the early years. He was succeeded by Robert Hudson. Hudson owned the Palace Theatre and went on to operate several other area theaters.
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.)