Kenmore Theatre
3021 Delaware Avenue,
Kenmore,
NY
14217
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Previously operated by: Shea Theatres
Architects: Edwin P. Bacon, William C. Lurkey
Firms: Bacon & Lurkey
Previous Names: Shea's Kenmore Theatre
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A classic neighborhood movie theatre in Kenmore, a suburb of Buffalo. The Kenmore Theater was opened January 30, 1926. It was equipped with a Wurlitzer 3 manual theatre pipe organ (Opus 1225). It was taken over by Shea Theatres around September 1936. The Wurlitzer organ was removed in 1960 to a private residence in Warsaw, NY and later to another private residence in Lancaster, NY. The Kenmore Theater was demolished in June 1968 and apartments have been built on the site.
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Organ pipes from the Kenmore ,some of the pipes anyway, were bought and added to the Wurlitzer organ used at the Emery Theater in Cincinnati,Ohio in the 20 years that atos ran movies there in the 1980 and 1990’s.
The Kenmore Theatre, designed by Bacon & Lurkey, opened on Jan.30,1926 with 1,556 seats. It was demolished June 1968.
Buffalo architects Edwin P. Bacon and William C. Lurkey established their partnership in 1922.
The May 2, 1925, issue of The Moving Picture World said that the contract for the construction of the Kenmore Theatre had been let:
In 1936, the Kenmore Theatre became part of the Shea circuit, as was noted in the September 3 issue of The Film Daily: The only photo of the Kenmore Theatre I’ve been able to find is on this page of the Ken-Ton Bee web site, where it is partly seen in the background, obscured by a parade float.1/30/26 image added via Donald Knollā.
Grand opening ad posted.