Grand Theatre
2 N. Portage Street,
Westfield,
NY
14787
2 N. Portage Street,
Westfield,
NY
14787
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This is an item from the November 25, 1916 issue of Moving Picture World: “WESTFIELD, N. Y.-C. J. Carlson has plans by Freeburg Fidler [but see note below], Chadakoin building, Jamestown, N. Y., for a two-story theater and store building, 60 by 136 feet, to cost $35,000.” According to this web page, that project turned out to be the first Grand Theatre, which opened in 1917.
The catastrophic 1941 fire was not the first to visit the Grand. The building was gutted by a fire on November 3, 1923, and the house was not reopened until September, 1924. That was when it became the New Grand Theatre.
NOTE: Architect Freeburg, whose first name was either George or Raymond, of Freeburg & Fidler, died suddenly in late 1916, and it appears that the successor firm of Phillips, Fidler & Beck designed the Grand. I had a source for this some time ago but have lost track of it. Some information about Freeburg & Fidler can be found in my comment on our page for the Mozart Theatre in Jamestown, New York, which they designed.