Star Theater

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Name
Star Theater
Address
131-133 E Green St Ithaca (as of 1908)
Year Built
1908
Building Type
Commercial
Construction
not specified
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“Dr. F. S. Howe of the Star Theater Company announced today that the new theater, which is being built at the corner of Green and Tioga Streets, will open either October. 15 or 19.” 

“Local Briefs,” Ithaca Daily News, October 5, 1908, 3.

“Star Theatre 
Ithaca’s New Home of Polite Vaudeville 
Presenting the Latest in Motion Pictures… 
Admission 10 cents” 

Advertisement for Star Theatre, Ithaca Daily Journal, October 19, 1908, 2, accessed March 12, 2026, https://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=idj19081019-01.1.2

“Miss Elliott, who has for many years conducted a cigar box factory at 131 East Green street, is going to move to the floor above the Star Theater. The building she now occupies will be torn down and the ground graded, making a west side exist from the theater.” 

Ithaca Daily Journal, February 3, 1909, 6, accessed March 13, 2026, https://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=idj19090203-01.1.6 

Star Theater, Charles L. Hamer business manager 131-133 E Green St 
 
Helen M Elliott, cigar box manufacturer 133 W Green St
Norton Printing Co, Ithaca, NY 

“The cigar-box manufactory which for the last six months has been conducted by Charles W. Scott in the Star Theater building has been sold to D. E. Palmer and possession given. Mr. Palmer is a woodworker by trade. Mr. Scott, who retires on account of ill health was for 35 years employed by the wholesale firm of D. B. Stewart & Co.”

“Box Factory Changes Hands,” Ithaca Daily News, April 17, 1911, 2.