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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 10/07/2026 04:03:00

One of the oldest commercially active properties in Tennessee, the Bijou Theatre at 803 South Gay Street in downtown Knoxville traces its origins to the Lamar House, a Federal-style hotel built on this site around 1817 on land once granted to Revolutionary War general James White. In 1908, the Auditorium Company purchased the property and constructed a theatre wing behind the hotel, opening Jake Wells' Bijou Theatre on 8 March 1909 with a sellout production of George M. Cohan's Little Johnny Jon...