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Baby Grand Theatre

122 S Park Ave, Winter Park, FL

A one-screen Winter Park movie house with conflicting founding stories (1911 or 1917), closed in 1940 when the Colony opened.

📅 until 1940🏛️ TheaterRepurposed
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The story

The Baby Grand Theatre on Park Avenue is listed as opening on February 1, 1917, according to a Rollins College archive cited by a commenter. Another commenter, citing a Winter Park Historical Museum exhibit, says it was built in 1911 for silent pictures by Mr. Beacham, who also owned Orlando theaters. The sources conflict. It was rebuilt in 1927.

Universal Chain Theatrical Enterprises took it over, and E.J. Sparks later did, with dates that vary by commenter. The theater closed in 1940 when the Colony Theatre opened. It reopened briefly in 1947 under Florida State Theaters, showing westerns and adventure films, and closed again within a year. It now houses retail and real estate office space, and one commenter says nothing remains of its facade or interior.

What's There Now

Retail and real estate office space.

Everything that was here

Did you know?

The sources disagree on whether it opened in 1911 or 1917.
It reopened in 1947 for westerns and closed again within a year.
The only noted exterior photo is displayed at the Maitland Historical Museum.

Nearby history

Colony Theatre

329 S Park Ave · 207 m away
A Streamline Moderne Winter Park movie house that closed on September 28, 1975 and is now a Pottery Barn.

Orlando Coliseum (Kemp's Coliseum)

1644 N Orange Ave · 4.1 km away
A $300,000 amusement palace that opened with a grand ball on December 23, 1926 and later hosted big band dances and roll

College Park Diner (College Park Cafe)

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Linda's La Cantina Steakhouse

4721 E Colonial Dr · 5.3 km away
A steakhouse claiming to be Orlando's oldest family-owned, rebuilt after a fire three days after Christmas 1994.

Beefy King

424 N Bumby Ave · 5.4 km away
A family-run roast beef sandwich shop in the Milk District, serving since 1968.

Ben White Raceway

1805 Lee Rd · 5.6 km away
The self-styled colt capital of harness racing, a 120-acre city-owned training track that was renamed Trotters Park in 2

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Sourceshttps://cinematreasures.org/theaters/14959