Fort Peck Theatre Explained

Fort Peck Theatre
Coordinates:48.0075°N -106.45°W
Built:1934
Architecture:Swiss Chalet
Added:June 27, 1983
Area:1.2acres
Refnum:83001077

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.[1]

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.[2]

Its NRHP nomination compares it to the architecturally significant Timberline Lodge in Oregon.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: History. 2008-10-30. Fort Peck Summer Theatre. 2008-10-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20090228061640/http://www.fortpecktheatre.org/history. 2009-02-28. dead.
  2. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=83001077}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Fort Peck Theatre / Fort Peck Summer Theatre ]. National Park Service. Jack W. Nickels Jr. and Mary Moore . June 26, 1982 . July 10, 2017. With .