Completed in 1908 and first known as the Red Men’s Hall, this building was an early example of skyscraper construction with steel I beams. Its second story was a flat-floor, clear-span space with stage and balcony, originally called “The Indian Theater,” where traveling theatrical groups, vaudeville shows, local orchestra concerts, high school plays and graduations, boxing matches, basketball games, and later dancing to big bands were held. The first floor storefronts housed a confectionery, bowling alley, barber shop, and movie theater; the theater began with silent films, was converted to sound in 1930 and renamed the “New” Linda Theater, and brought first-run talking films to Shawnee under local businessman and building owner Louis Hatem before the final movies were shown in 1959. On the third floor, the Improved Order of Red Men and the Daughters of Pocahontas shared lodge rooms, part of the many fraternal organizations along Main Street during the boom era. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, the water-damaged building was saved that year by local citizens who bought it and began restoration, renaming it the Tecumseh Theater to honor the Shawnee leader Tecumseh, who may have traveled through and hunted in the forest here in the late 1700s along the Belpre Trail, where natural saltlicks attracted large game.