Weinberg Center

The Weinberg Center is an 1,183-seat theater building located in Frederick, Maryland. It holds various showings of music, theatre, films and visual art.

The entrance
The Blair Witch Project 20th Anniversary Edition Screening

History

The theatre was built as the Tivoli Theatre by the Stanley-Crandall Company and opened on December 23, 1926.[1] It was the premiere movie theatre of Frederick for nearly fifty years but closed after considerable damage suffered in a 1976 flood.[2] 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.[3] The Weinberg Center holds several dozen events every year, and has an annual budget of one million dollars.[4]

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