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Chatham Theater is a historic building located at 637 Main St in Chatham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Built in 1914. It is part of a local historic district.
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Chatham Theater
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About this site
Chatham Theater is a landmark in Chatham, Barnstable County. It is one of 6,558 landmarks documented in Barnstable County, among 6,897 historic sites cataloged across the county on MassRoam.
The site sits at 41.6823, -69.9607 near Chatham. The nearest cataloged historic site is Ben Franklin Variety Store (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Commercial Building at 641-651 Main St, Lewis, Isaiah Store, and Blake, Alice G. - Allen, Dorothea D. Building.
This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
Captain A. H. Bearse bought this Main Street lot intending to build a first-class opera and moving picture house, and the Orpheum opened in June 1916 with electric lights, ventilating fans and 400 seats — Chatham's first and only cinema. Interstate Theatres bought it in 1938 and ran it as the Chatham Theater until 1987, after which the building spent two decades leased to a CVS pharmacy. A grassroots nonprofit bought it back in 2012 and reopened it in 2013 as a two-screen cinema under its original name.
Sources: chathamorpheum.orgetourchatham.org
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