Broad Street
Taylor Theatre

206-208-210 South Broad Street

     This Colonial-Revival/Neo-Classical blended style theatre was built in 1925 by Charles Collins Benton.  In 1990 the chandelier that had once served as the light source for the theatre was moved to the Granville Queen Inn.  

     The Taylor Theatre was built after 71 Edentonians created the Edenton Auditorium Company in 1916.  They bought the land upon which the theatre was built in 1917 and sold it six years later to Samuel Taylor.  The theatre opened in September of 1925 and continued operating under the original owners until 1960, when Mrs. Taylor sold the building to      W. J. P. Earnhardt Enterprises.  In the 1980s the Theatre became Taylor Twin Theatre, named so because it had been divided into two identical theatres.  It closed in 1987, but reopened in 1990.