Stefanie H. Weill Center for the Performing Arts

The United Studios of Chicago designed the Sheboygan Theatre, and is the same firm that designed the Venetian Theatre in Racine and the Kenosha Theatre in Kenosha. The United Studios architects included Fred Jacobs, Ralph Beaudry and L. P. Larsen.

Restoration photos for this theatre can be found at:
http://www.ljmarchitects.com/Historic%20Preservation/Sheboygan%20THeater%20Photo1.htm

Nees to update the seating capacity to 1550.

Seating capacity is 1150, not 1550.

Brief history and exterior/interior photos:
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/hp/register/viewSummary.asp?refnum=99001606

Added to the National Register of Historical Places in 1999

Sheboygan Theater (added 1999 - Building - #99001606)
826 N. Eighth St., Sheboygan
Historic Significance: Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer: United Studios, Inc., Immet Construction Co.
Architectural Style: Mission/Spanish Revival
Area of Significance: Architecture
Period of Significance: 1925-1949
Owner: Private
Historic Function: Recreation And Culture
Historic Sub-function: Theater
Current Function: Vacant/Not In Use

This is a recent photo of the Stefanie H. Weill Center for the Performing Arts.

Here is a 1950 ad from the Shebogan Press:
http://tinyurl.com/298hh9

A Wurlitzer theater organ opus 1828 style "E" was installed in the Sheboygan Theater on 1/21/1928.

Here is a 1986 photo of the Sheboygan Theater as a twin.

"Sheboygan Theatre" Will Be Name Of New Amusement Place

Sheboygan's new $600,000 palace of entertainment, now under construction at N. Eighth street and Niagara Avenue, will be called the "Sheboygan Theatre," according to a definite announcement in
southern Wisconsin Press from the Milwaukee Theatre Circuit.
The community is looking forward eagerly to the time when this magnificent building will be completed.
A crew of seventy men is laboring long hours so that all work may be finished before April 1, 1928.
Pouring of concrete for the foundation footing has been completed and the erection of steel is now under way. The bricklayers will be ready to start within three weeks. Those who are familiar with the new Kenosha Theatre, which had its formal opening September 1, can visualize the beauty that brain and brawn will build into the Sheboygan Theatre. Said the Kenosha Evening News in its special theatre edition:
"Theatre lovers will be thrilled at the splendor and magnificence. It's a far cry from the days when Spanish galleons were the pirates of the high seas and Pizzaro and Cortez conquered and plundered the fabulous riches of Mexico and South America, to this age in which men span the ocean in less than two days. Yet when patrons of the Kenosha Theatre look about them they will behold magnificence and dazzling opulence in an abundance undreamed of by those old Spanish conquerors."
Likewise, an advertisement of the United Studios, managers of the local construction project, appearing in the Exhibitors Herald, states that "the new $600,000 theatre at Sheboygan, Wisconsin, will
represent, when completed, all that modern thought can contribute to the motion picture theatre."
The new Sheboygan Theatre will have a seating capacity of 1,550. The main entrance will be on N. Eighth Street. The building will be of the atmospheric type, resembling an open air theatre.
There will be a 25-foot stage to permit vaudeville entertainment, as well as moving pictures produced by the Universal Pictures corporation under the famous Carl Laemmle, its guiding genius.

(September, 1927)

This is a 2009 photo.

A 2009 night photo is here.