Shea's Performing Arts Center
- Architect
- Rapp and Rapp
- Year
- 1926
- City
- Buffalo, NY
Shea's Performing Arts Center opened in 1926 as a movie palace designed by the architecture firm Rapp and Rapp, and later became a performing arts center. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, its ornate theater facade still visible from the street.
the building
Ornate theater facade. The 1926 building presents an ornate movie-palace facade to the street, the work of Rapp and Rapp.
the architect
Rapp and Rapp designed Shea's Performing Arts Center, which opened in 1926 as a movie palace.
significance
Shea's Performing Arts Center is a National Register of Historic Places listed place, and its history as a movie palace turned performing arts center gives it a retellable story.
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- The Calumet
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- Electric Tower
- Young Men's Christian Association Central Building
- William Dorsheimer House
- Birge-Horton House