Description
Newport Daily News glass plate negative showing an empty lot on the east side of Thames Street, the future site of the Colonial Theater [Colonial Theatre], previously located at 144-150 Thames Street. The photograph is angled looking east towards the Joseph Hazard Memorial School between Touro Street and Clarke Street, no longer extant, and the Newport Opera House [now 19 Touro Street]. A fence has been erected around the building site, plastered with posters for moving pictures and plays.