Tuscan Opera House
7 Main Street,
Dixfield,
ME
04224
7 Main Street,
Dixfield,
ME
04224
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Previous Names: Dixfield Theatre
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The 19th Century Tuscan Opera House in Dixfield, which was in an IOOF building, burned about 1901 and was replaced on the same site about 1905. The theatre occupied the first two floors and the IOOF (Odd Fellows) office and meeting room were on the third floor. There was a commercial movie operation there for many years.
The building was damaged by fire about 1937 and then reopened as the Dixfield Theatre. It closed to movies about 1952 and later became the Opera House Restaurant. Still later it became the Tuscan Opera House again with occasional live shows.
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Uploaded a photo of the Opera House, circa 1930, from the Dixfield Historical Society found on the Maine Memory Network site. Original Oddfellows dated back to 1891.
The Theatre Historical Society archive has the MGM Theatre Report for this theater when it was the Dixfield Theatre; it’s Card # 364. Address is Main Street. There is an exterior photo taken October 1949. The photo is definitely the same building in a color photo taken in recent years which I found on-line and the same as the photo posted by robboehm. It’s a long rectangular wood-frame structure. The MGM report says that it was in Fair condition, that it was built in 1900 (1905), that it was showing MGM movies, had 250 seats (have also read that it has close to 400 seats). It was a former IOOF- Odd Fellows building. The 1949 population was 1,500.