Marker Inscription
Architecture, Entertainment/Recreation
Historic Place
Edna Theatre
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About this site
Edna Theatre is a historic place in Edna, Jackson County, dedicated in 2011. It is one of 2 historic places documented in Jackson County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 48 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 28.9776, -96.6478 near Edna. The nearest cataloged historic site is Jackson County Courthouse (courthouse), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Mission Nuestra Senora del Espiritu Santo de Zuniga, Horton, George F., Home, and Confederates of Jackson County.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2011000652. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The Edna Theatre opened in March 1950 as a flagship of the Long Theatre Company, designed in the Moderne style by Houston's W. D. Peck and Company with a towering illuminated vertical fin and a curving multicolored neon marquee. It served as Jackson County's entertainment center until closing in 1978 as television spread, and local residents have since worked to restore it. The theatre is recognized on the National Register of Historic Places.
Sources: ednatheatre.comsah-archipedia.org
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