Wednesday, July 14, 2021 at 6:00 PM, starting at the corner of First Street and Locust Street in Downtown Evansville, Indiana

Tom Lonnberg, Chief Curator & Curator of History at the Evansville Museum of Arts, History, and Science will deliver the talk on early Evansville Hotels. Terry Hughes, President of the Vanderburgh County Historical Society, will give the talk on early Evansville cinema theaters. The tour covers about a mile and a quarter and will take from one and a half to two hours. Learn about the McCurdy, St. George, Vendome, Jackson House, Hugh McGary home, the Towne Motel and other hotels and motels in downtown Evansville. Visit the sites of the Orpheum, Strand, Ohio, Savoy, Majestic and Grand theaters among others in the early cinema portion of the tour.

This walking tour is a joint project with the Evansville Museum of Arts, History, and Science, the Vanderburgh County Historical Society, and the Evansville Department of Metropolitan Development. The tour is free and open to the public. Tourists will receive printed handouts about Evansville’s early hotels and theaters. Reservations are not required, but we appreciated advanced notice by indicating on the Museum’s Facebook page.(See link below) or emailing to mailto:info@vchshistory.org
In the event of inclement weather, we will reschedule the tour. Watch this website and the Museum’s Facebook page for notice of rescheduling. https://www.facebook.com/events/176799154393019/