Strand Theater
93 Main Street,
Brockport,
NY
14420
93 Main Street,
Brockport,
NY
14420
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Built in 1907, since 1916 the building has housed the Strand Theater which had 500 seats.
Operated by Kallet Theatres in 1946, the facade was remodeled in an Art Moderne style by architect Michael J. DeAngelis, who added the black Carrara glass frontage. The plans also included enlarging the Strand Theater to seat 750, all on a single floor.
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Boxoffice had some interior photos in November 1947:
http://tinyurl.com/ydb3b8s
ken mc: Thanks so very much for posting the Boxoffice interior photos of 1947 which are so similar to my hometown DeAngelis designed theatre. Should be interesting to see how this theatre was triplexed being that “tri” means three when I visit the theatre this Spring.
Here is a more recent photo:
http://tinyurl.com/yc87r7d
When was this theatre triplexed?? It may be the only existing Michael DeAngelis designed theatre that has been divided with three screens!
Did it orignally have a balcony and who is this businessman who owns the Strand? Is he responsible for “carving up” the interior?
In his post of September 25, 2008, SchineHistorian suggests that this theater originally opened as the Lyric Theatre. An item in the December 3, 1914, edition of the Holley Standard (a weekly paper from a neighboring village), noted that the Lyric was purchased by Charles Lawton, who was also the owner of another Brockport cinema, the Globe Theater. It doesn’t appear that the Globe is presently listed on CT. Meanwhile, perhaps Lyric Theatre should be added to this entry as an AKA.
Always nice to see a recent post on this Michael DeAngelo designed theatre…very unique exterior with the round windows and that shiny vitrolite.
And SchineHistorian would know as she is the expert on Schine theatres!
Another note found in the June 18, 1914, edition of the same paper stated that Fred B. Whiting, the former manager of the Lyric Theatre, was to “erect an open air moving picture theater” in the village that would have an expected seating capacity of about seven or eight hundred. Seems similar enterprises were routinely popping up in vacant lots all across the country during these early years of motion picture exhibition, before air-cooling systems were perfected.
Curiously, this item appeared in the January 11, 1917, edition of the Holley Standard:
“The Lyric theater in Brockport is to pass out of existence. The E Harrison Company have leased the building and expect to remove their clothing business to that location.”
Perhaps SchineHistorian (apologies for identifying the wrong gender for her in a previous comment) would know if there was an different Lyric that had operated in town once the changeover was made to the Strand name – or perhaps this was a planned relocation for E Harrison that never happened. Amazing how side-tracked one can become when burying themselves in old newspaper editions! I’m researching a couple of theaters in Holley, NY, and just keep stumbling upon tangential tidbits like this.