Fort Peck Theatre

Missouri Ave., Fort Peck, Montana. County/parish: Valley.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 27, 1983. NRIS 83001077.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • Fort Peck Summer Theatre

From Wikipedia:

Fort Peck Theatre

The Fort Peck Theatre was built as a temporary structure in 1934 in Fort Peck, Montana, to serve as a movie theatre. It is also known as the Fort Peck Summer Theatre. The theater was designed in a pseudo-Swiss-chalet style as an amenity for the 50,000 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers workers and their families at the Fort Peck Dam project. The interior features open-truss wood construction, with handcrafted light fixtures fabricated in Corps of Engineers workshops. The theater survived to become a permanent facility, and in 2008 was in use as a community theater.

The building includes a stage, a 1209-seat auditorium, a lounge, a foyer, a lobby, a manager's office, and four dressing rooms. It was designed and/or built by Eugene Frank Gilstrap and the C.F. Haglin Co.

Its NRHP nomination compares it to the architecturally significant Timberline Lodge in Oregon.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71976643

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