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1711-13 Main St
Niagara Falls NY 14305
(716) 205-8925

	Record #23602
Opened: 1921	Capacity: 600 seats Architect(s): Architectural Style(s): National Register: Current Organ: Wurlitzer
Also Known As: Bellevue, Dome

Information for this tour was contributed by Louis Badolato & Keith Gramlich.

The Bellevue Theater opened in 1921 as Shea's Bellevue. It reopened in 1961 as the Rapids Theater. It showed its last movie in 1974 and reopened as a disco in 1978. It has also been used as a nightclub. Today it is known as the Dome Theater and is used for live concerts.

The Bellevue originally housed a Wurlitzer style 185 "Special" (Added a Tibia) and is Opus 442 from 1921.

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Last featured 10/7/2003. Last edited 12/15/2009.


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