Tuscan Opera House

7 Main Street,
Dixfield, ME 04224

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rsalters (Ron Salters)
rsalters (Ron Salters) on November 13, 2015 at 12:21 pm

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.

robboehm
robboehm on November 13, 2015 at 10:12 am

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.