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Town Hall Theater

Lowville, NY

5428 Shady Avenue

, Lowville, NY 13367 United States

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315.376.2421

Status:	Open
Screens:	Single Screen
Style:	Unknown

Function:	Movies (Family)
Seats:	687
Chain:	Independent

Architect:	Michael J. DeAngelis
Firm:	Unknown

The Town Hall Theater was originally an opera house, a USO club and a silent movie house. In 1949 the building was purchased by motion picture pioneer Earnest J. Wolf after his Bijou Theater in town burned to the ground.

Earnest hired a well known architect Michael De Angelis of Rochester to design the theater remodeling. The interior was designed and painted by the famous Oscar Gias of New York City. Anselm Cannan of Lowville was in charge of the construction work. It was heralded as the most outstanding and beautiful theater in Northern New York. Nick and Rena Giannocous purchased the theater from the Wolf family in 1957. The O'Brien family purchased from Nick and Rena in September of 1990.

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Town Hall Theater, Lowville (Official)

Contributed by Patrick A. O' Brien

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Lost: Can you provide us with any photos of this architecturally designed theater by Michael DeAngelis?

posted by Patsy on Jul 10, 2009 at 4:50am

Patsy....I'll put it on my photo shopping list. :) This site has a postcard that is supposed to be the Town Hall Theater. I'm surprised that this theaters website has no photos of the Town Hall Theater.

posted by Lost Memory on Jul 10, 2009 at 8:26am

It's agreed; photos of the Town Hall Theatre, both of the exterior and interior of the theatre, would be nice.

posted by MPol on Jul 10, 2009 at 8:50am

MPol: Glad to read that you agree!

posted by Patsy on Jul 10, 2009 at 2:41pm

Hi, Patsy. Thanks! :)

posted by MPol on Jul 10, 2009 at 7:20pm

I agree too. If either of you ladies find any photos, let me know. LOL

posted by Lost Memory on Jul 10, 2009 at 7:43pm

Thanks, Lost Memory. Although I'm not familiar with Town Hall Theatre, or have any photographs of this neat-looking theatre, or the familiarity of embedding photos into forums, I look forward to seeing any photographs of Town Hall Theatre that might come up.

posted by MPol on Jul 10, 2009 at 7:54pm

I'm not familiar with this theater either. I've been to upstate NY many times and to be honest, I've never heard of this town. Posting the photos isn't difficult, the real trick is finding them. Eventually some photos might turn up.

posted by Lost Memory on Jul 10, 2009 at 8:05pm

Lost: Nice to see much chatter on this theater as it had been silent.....until now!

posted by Patsy on Jul 11, 2009 at 6:37am

Hi, Lost Memory. Although I, too have been to and traveled through upstate New York, I'd never heard of this particular town or the Town Hall Theatre. A wonderful thing about this site is that one learns something else every day.

posted by MPol on Jul 11, 2009 at 7:23am

A few pictures of the Town Hall Theatre are in this Boxoffice article from December 3, 1949. The article calls the style "modern baroque," but it's Art Moderne.

posted by Joe Vogel on Dec 27, 2009 at 1:56am

Interesting article and photo, Joe Vogel. Thanks for posting it and sharing it with everybody here.

posted by MPol on Dec 27, 2009 at 8:14am

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