Fort Peck Theatre

United States historic place


Fort Peck Theatre
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


48°0′27″N 106°27′0″W / 48.00750°N 106.45000°W / 48.00750; -106.45000
Area	1.2 acres (0.49 ha)
Built	1934
Built by	Eugene Frank Gilstrap / C.F. Haglin Co.
Architectural style	Swiss Chalet
NRHP reference No.	83001077^[1]
Added to NRHP	June 27, 1983

The Fort Peck Theatre was built as a temporary structure in 1934 in Fort Peck, Montana to serve as a movie theatre. It is also known as the Fort Peck Summer Theatre. The theater was designed in a pseudo-Swiss-chalet style as an amenity for the 50,000 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers workers and their families at the Fort Peck Dam project. The interior features open-truss wood construction, with handcrafted light fixtures fabricated in Corps of Engineers workshops. The theater survived to become a permanent facility, and in 2008 was in use as a community theater.^[2]

The building includes a stage, a 1209-seat auditorium, a lounge, a foyer, a lobby, a manager's office, and four dressing rooms. It was designed and/or built by Eugene Frank Gilstrap and the C.F. Haglin Co.^[3]

Its NRHP nomination compares it to the architecturally significant Timberline Lodge in Oregon.^[3]

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "History". Fort Peck Summer Theatre. October 30, 2008. Archived from the original on February 28, 2009. Retrieved October 30, 2008.
^ ^a ^b Jack W. Nickels Jr. and Mary Moore (June 26, 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Fort Peck Theatre / Fort Peck Summer Theatre". National Park Service. Retrieved July 10, 2017. With 11 photos from 1972 and two from 1985.