The 879-seat Bijou Theatre on Main Street was originally a house of worship before becoming a vaudeville and movie house. Around the turn of the century, the Social Methodist House was moved a block to 273 Main Street to make way for the new post office. In 1912, space for a stage and wings was added to the church auditorium and the building leased to famed theatrical figure Edward Albee. Stock companies, vaudevillians and movies played there.

For a long period, the Bijou presented vaudeville shows in the fall, winter and spring and had a resident stock company during the summer.  After sound motion pictures had crowded stage shows out of the entertainment picture in the smaller cities, the Bijou was converted into a movie house. 

The Bijou was hit twice by fire. The second fire in 1936 led to a $50,000 loss and closed the theater for thirteen months. It closed again in 1952 because business was off, reopening weekends only in 1955. Its demolition began the final day of 1963. Its last owner was U.S. Senator Theodore Francis Green.