Weinberg Center

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Weinberg Center for the Arts
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Weinberg Center
Address20 West Patrick Street
LocationFrederick, MD 21701
Coordinates 39°24′50″N77°24′42″W / 39.414016°N 77.411658°W / 39.414016; -77.411658
Seating typeReserved seating
Website
weinbergcenter.org


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The Weinberg Center is a 1,143-seat [1] theater building located in Frederick, Maryland. It holds various showings of music, theater, films, studio screenings, conventions, weddings, business meetings, television and commercial location shoots and visual arts.

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History

The theatre was built as the Tivoli Theatre by the Stanley-Crandall Company and opened on December 23, 1926. [2] It was the premiere movie theatre of Frederick for nearly fifty years but closed after considerable damage suffered in a 1976 flood. [3] The Weinberg family, which then owned the old movie palace, chose to present it to the city as a gift rather than attempt to keep it open as a movie house. The theatre has been maintained in the splendid style of 1926. The theatre's organ, a two-manual, eight-rank Wurlitzer, is the only original theatre organ installation in the state. [4] The Weinberg Center holds several dozen events every year, and has an annual budget of one million dollars. [5]

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References

  1. "Rent the Weinberg Theater for Special Events - Frederick, Maryland". Weinberg Center for the Arts. Retrieved 2022-01-24.
  2. Headley, Robert K. (2008). Maryland's Motion Picture Theaters. Arcadia Publishing. p. 89. ISBN   978-0-7385-5384-9.
  3. Borha, Imade. "Weinberg Center celebrates 90 years, but not without bumps along the way". The Frederick News-Post. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  4. "Learn More About the Weinberg Center for the Arts - A Historic Maryland Theater". Weinberg Center for the Arts. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
  5. Staff, Pete McCarthy News-Post. "Stage set for growth at Weinberg Center". The Frederick News-Post. Retrieved 2021-08-22.