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 1908 - Alcazar (Star) Theatre - Red Lodge, MT Posted by:  T0SHEA
N 45° 11.186 W 109° 14.822
12T E 637711 N 5005155
Built in 1908 as a moving picture theatre, this must have been the first in the town. Later, in 1925, another movie theatre was built next door, as this one had closed by 1913. Later the building housed a pool hall and even a bordello upstairs.
Waymark Code: WMWBRZ
Location: Montana, United States
Date Posted: 08/09/2017
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ALCAZAR (STAR) THEATRE
A combination moving picture theater and boardinghouse were the original tenants of this two-story masonry building, completed in 1908. Several directors managed the rather short-lived Alcazar, including Steve Roman, whose family long monopolized Red Lodge’s theater business. Roman closed the theater in 1913, and building owners Larkin and Fleming remodeled, opening as McIntyre’s Pool Hall. A bordello called the “Orpheus Rooms” replaced the upper-floor boardinghouse. In 1986, fire destroyed two buildings at 3 and 5 S. Broadway, which shared this same façade design. The now unique survivor, with its superior brick detailing and sandstone trim, enhances the district’s historic turn-of-the-twentieth-century character.
From the NRHP plaque at the building
Year of construction: 1908
Cross-listed waymark: [Web Link]
Full inscription:
1908
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