Murphy Theatre
50 West Main Street,
Wilmington,
OH
45177
50 West Main Street,
Wilmington,
OH
45177
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The Murphy Theatre opened on July 24, 1918.
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Charles Burgess
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The Murphy in summer 1996:
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1982 photo of the Murphy Theatre.
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Another 1982 photo of the Murphy Theatre.
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Another 1982 photo of the Murphy Theatre.
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1983 photo of the Murphy theatre.
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1983 photo of the Murphy Theatre Box Office.
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Here are two more 1983 photos:
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Murphy Theatre photos from 2007 courtesy Liberty Images.
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This is a nice 2009 photo of the Murphy Theater.
Here’s a new official website:
http://www.murphytheatre.org/
The theatre is alive and well and still doing performing arts!
Photos of the Murphy Theatre.
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URL should be:
http://www.themurphytheatre.org/
Note the “the”.
Pictured in this 1976 trade report: Boxoffice
The surname of one of the partners in the architectural firm is currently misspelled. The correct spelling is Fahnestock. The firm of Dittoe, Fahnestock & Ferber was in operation from the late 1910s to the early 1920s. The partners were Louis G. Dittoe, L.W. Fahnestock, and Charles H. Ferber, Jr.
Although Dittoe appears to have been the senior architect in the firm, it is possible that Ferber brought some expertise to the Murphy Theatre project. According to his biography at the Architecture Foundation of Cincinnati, he had spent parts of the years 1913 and 1914 training in the office of noted San Francisco theater architects James and Merritt Reid. From 1909 to 1913 he had received training in the office of Rapp, Zettel & Rapp, a Cincinnati firm that designed a number of theaters.
The November, 1919, issue of The Western Architect featured five photos of this splendid theater (scan at Google Books.)