The Fort Peck Theatre was built as a temporary structure in 1934 in

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, 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 The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is the military engineering branch of the United States Army. A direct reporting unit (DRU), it has three primary mission areas: Engineer Regiment, military construction, and civil wor ...

workers and their families at the

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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. With . Its NRHP nomination compares it to the architecturally significant

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in Oregon.

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Fort Peck Summer Theatre
Theatres completed in 1934 Cinemas and movie theaters in Montana Former cinemas in the United States Tourist attractions in Valley County, Montana 1934 establishments in Montana Theatres on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana National Register of Historic Places in Valley County, Montana

Theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a Stage (theatre), stage. The performe ...

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