Geyer Performing Arts Center
111 Pittsburgh Street,
Scottdale,
PA
15683
111 Pittsburgh Street,
Scottdale,
PA
15683
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Also: Official web site.
Oh, and the article says that the seating capacity as of 2005 was 350, which it probably still is.
This web page has an article from the March 3, 2005 issue of the local Tribune newspaper with a brief history of the Geyer Performing Arts Center. It notes that from its renovation in the late 1980s until 2005 the house was known as the Showtime Theatre. It reopened under new management as the Geyer Performing Arts Center on March 5, 2005. The Strand had closed as a movie house in 1969.
The Geyer was likely built to replace the Central Opera House, a large wooden structure built in about the same location as the Geyer’s auditorium sometime between 1884 and 1891. It was a simple one-story barn, and had no frontage on Pittsburgh.
The Geyer’s entrance has always been very narrow. It was originally a single story wooden structure that stopped well short of the street. By 1908, it was a two-story wood frame with brick veneer, set just back from the street, and by 1925 it had been remodeled yet again to its present appearance.
The name change to Strand happened sometime between 1914 and 1925. The 1905 Cahn guide gives a capacity of 806.