Downtown Wilmington ... The former Bailey movie theater at 20 N. Front St. opened in 1940. To make way for the Bailey, a five-story building called the Purcell House Hotel that dated to the ...

The site traces its history in downtown Wilmington back to the second half of the 1800s when it opened as the Purcell House Hotel. The hotel was razed in 1942 to make way for the Bailey Theater.