A ground-floor theater entrance set into a taller downtown commercial block on Broadway, reached under a bracketed marquee flanked by poster cases. Inside, the auditorium walls carried painted murals and the house was fitted with an unusually small balcony.
A building permit for the Senate Theatre was issued in September 1925, and the house opened at 9 North Broadway around the end of that year. It was designed by A.H. Steel. For most of its run it showed second-run double bills and western pictures. In July 1948 the wall of an adjoining building collapsed onto the Senate's roof, injuring several patrons in the auditorium. The Goldman-Plikos circuit operated the theater in its final years, when it also served as a night shelter for people who paid the price of admission. The Senate closed in October 1964.
