Bijou Theatre
200 S. Main Street,
Ottawa,
KS
66067
200 S. Main Street,
Ottawa,
KS
66067
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Located at 200 ½ S. Main Street sharing the right-hand side of the building built in 1895 at the corner of S. Main Street and W. 2nd Street. The Bijou Theatre was a long narrow nickelodeon that was operating by March 1908. It was operated by J.C. Miller & Co, and at that time had 11 shows a day.
The entire building now appears to be occupied by what looks like a thrift store.
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Ken Roe
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I’ve added a picture. Some moron put cladding on the left hand side sometime around the ‘60s, so that bay is missing.
I’m not sure where this would have been. The corner is 202. There is no 200, even though it makes more sense. 202 ½ is the upstairs. The 1912 map doesn’t show anything upstairs. The space at 202 was occupied by a clothing store from 1895 through at least 1912 (the remaining bay window says ‘H.L.T. Skinner Clothier’ at the top), and there were some small spaces at the rear which faced W 2nd St. The left hand side of the building, 204, had a more varied history, and the theater might have been there, although again it would have closed by 1912.