The Booth Theater is a historic

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located at 119 W. Myrtle St. in

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. The building was constructed in 1911 and renovated for use as a movie theater in 1926–27. The redesigned theater was the first in Independence to be designed specifically for use as a movie theater. The Boller Brothers, an architectural firm known for their theater designs, designed the theater in a mixture of the

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and Italian Renaissance Revival styles. The theater showed films until its closure in 1980. . The theater was listed on the

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in 1988.

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Cinema Treasure: Booth Theater
Boller Brothers buildings Theatres on the National Register of Historic Places in Kansas Theatres completed in 1926 Buildings and structures in Montgomery County, Kansas Spanish Revival architecture in Kansas Italian Renaissance Revival architecture in the United States 1926 establishments in Kansas Theatres completed in 1911 1911 establishments in Kansas National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, Kansas Independence, Kansas {{Kansas-NRHP-stub