Hitchcock Theater
715 8th
Baldwin City, Ks.

Hitchcock Theater
715 8th
Baldwin City, Ks.

Although a building on this property was illustrated in the 1908 Souvenir, no building was recorded on the 1912 Sanborn map. The existing masonry building dates to about 1918 when the owner was Thomas A. Hitchcock. By 1927 the building was a movie theater with a small store in the NE corner. It was known as the Gem Theater when John Davidson sold the lease to J. Ward Spillman in May, 1933.

Commercial building in row, rectangle with recessed central entrance, one-story, three bays, brick masonry construction, flat roof and parapet. Paired glazed wooden entrance doors flanked by sidelights and marquee windows with 4-light transom windows. Storefront has square glass sheathing panels, upper facade stuccoed, tile parapet cap.

Dale Nimz

Baldwin City Public Library

Fall 1988

Sanborn maps, 1893-1927
County assessment records, 1886-1928
Ledger 5-6-1954

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