Fox-Watson Theater Building

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Fox-Watson Theater Building
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Watson-Stiefel Theatre.
Fox-Watson Theater Building is located in Kansas
Fox-Watson Theater Building
Location 151 S Santa Fe Ave, Salina, Kansas
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Area less than one acre
Built 1930 (1930)
Architect Boller Brothers
Architectural style Art Deco
NRHP Reference # 88001171[1]
Added to NRHP August 4, 1988

The Fox-Stiefel Theater in Salina, Kansas is an Art Deco theater built 1930-1931. It opened its doors to the public in February 1931.[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 as the Fox-Watson Theater Building.[3]

History

The Fox-Watson Theatre, as it was then called, was opened in late February 1931. The theater was the brain-child of Winfield W. Watson, a local businessman and banker. He led the campaign to bring a movie house to Salina and donated the land for the theater. Fox West Coast Theatres built the art deco style movie house at a cost of $400,000. Boller Brothers, an architectural firm out of Kansas City, Missouri, designed the structure.[4]

The opening feature was Not Exactly Gentlemen featuring Fay Wray. The theater was closed in August 1987 by then owners Dickinson Theaters, as competition from Dickinson's mall theaters made the downtown location unprofitable.[3]

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Marquee

Dickinson gave the theater to the city in 1989. It was restored by a non-profit group over several years and reopened as The Stiefel Theatre for the Performing Arts on March 8, 2003.[4][5] Since then, the theater has booked a variety of acts.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ https://abandonedkansas.wordpress.com/2016/02/06/stiefel-watson-theatre/
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Accompanying 31 photos from 1931, 1937, and 1988.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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