Weinberg Center
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| Address | 20 West Patrick Street |
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| Location | Frederick, MD 21701 |
| Coordinates | 39°24′50″N 77°24′42″W / 39.414016°N 77.411658°W |
| Seating type | Reserved seating |
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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.
History
[edit]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]
References
[edit]- ^ "Rent the Weinberg Theater for Special Events - Frederick, Maryland". Weinberg Center for the Arts. Retrieved 2022-01-24.
- ^ Headley, Robert K. (2008). Maryland's Motion Picture Theaters. Arcadia Publishing. p. 89. ISBN 978-0-7385-5384-9.
- ^ Borha, Imade. "Weinberg Center celebrates 90 years, but not without bumps along the way". The Frederick News-Post. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
- ^ "Learn More About the Weinberg Center for the Arts - A Historic Maryland Theater". Weinberg Center for the Arts. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
- ^ Staff, Pete McCarthy News-Post. "Stage set for growth at Weinberg Center". The Frederick News-Post. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
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