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The Weinberg Center is a 1,143-seat theater building located in
The Weinberg Center is a 1,143-seat theater building located in Frederick, Maryland
Frederick is a city in and the county seat of Frederick County, Maryland. It is part of the Baltimore–Washington Metropolitan Area. Frederick has long been an important crossroads, located at the intersection of a major north–south Native ...
. It holds various showings of music, theater, films, studio screenings, conventions, weddings, business meetings, television and commercial location shoots and visual arts
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.
History
The theatre was built as the Tivoli Theatre by the Stanley-Crandall Company and opened on December 23, 1926. It was the premiere movie theatre of Frederick for nearly fifty years but closed after considerable damage suffered in a 1976 flood. The Weinberg family, which then owned the old movie palace, chose to present it to the city as a gift rather than attempt to keep it open as a movie house. The theatre has been maintained in the splendid style of 1926. The theatre's organ, a two-manual, eight-rankWurlitzer
The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, usually referred to as simply Wurlitzer, is an American company started in Cincinnati in 1853 by German immigrant (Franz) Rudolph Wurlitzer. The company initially imported stringed, woodwind and brass instruments ...
, is the only original theatre organ
A theatre organ (also known as a theater organ, or, especially in the United Kingdom, a cinema organ) is a type of pipe organ developed to accompany silent films, from the 1900s to the 1920s.
Theatre organs have horseshoe-shaped arrangements ...
installation in the state. The Weinberg Center holds several dozen events every year, and has an annual budget of one million dollars.
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