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The area the theater encompasses has been home to performing arts spaces since the 1880s when an opera house was built where the theater now stands. As the decades went on other ventures occupied the space including a boxing arena, ice skating rink, and finally The Strand Theater with an attached candy shop built where the side courtyard and event space for The Palace Theater stands today.

In the early 1920s the land next to The Strand was purchased and built into the theater we know today (then called The Manos Theatre, with The Palace being the grandest of all the theaters in the chain). The theater opened on September 2nd, 1926 with two 4-hour performances that were shown to a packed house of thousands and, naturally, went well into the night.

Palace Theater - Shortly thereafter movies became popular and in the 1930s Warner Brothers bought the theater and operated it for many decades as a place to show their movies (during this period of time production companies also owned theaters to distribute their films).

The theater continued on until it was sold multiple times throughout the 70s, and was finally saved by the Westmoreland Cultural Trust in the 90s, restored to its former glory, and is now a stunning spot for shows of all kinds in Greensburg! - Published by Jeremy

Contributed by Greg Lynch -