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Between 1885 and 1890, several two story brick buildings were constructed along West 9th Street, as the rapidly growing town acquired a more permanent character. These replaced a haphazard collection of wooden shacks. The building at 111-113 W 9th was the easternmost of these, and then used the 109-111 addresses.

By 1908, the eastern storefront of this Italianate structure housed a bank, but the July 1913 Sanborn shows this section greatly extended, and converted to a theater. This may have been the Drexel Theatre, the only listing in the 1914-15 AMPD without any address information.

Whatever the name, this early theatre did not last, and the 1923 map shows it converted to a store. The town has roughly 4,000 fewer residents today than when the theater opened. The building today is in pretty dire shape.

Coffeyville erected really awful urban ‘renewal’ awnings all down this block, and every building also had a cheap and unattractive ground floor remodel. The cornice has fallen off, and the upper floors of this building are used to store junk. The central stair is boarded up. The ground floor of the theater space is a restaurant.

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