Welcome to CinemaTour!  Sign In

CinemaTour
 
Cinema History Around the World  
 HOME ·· CINEMAS ·· LINKS ·· BOOKS
 Contact Cinematour ·· Help & Hints ·· About Cinematour
 

Rapids Theatre

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

Visit Website Live Theatre
Record #23602  
 Opened: September 1, 1921
Capacity: 600 seats
Architect(s): Leon H Lempert
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.



 External Links

---
---

Return to the top of this page   or   Return to the main page


Last featured 10/7/2003. Last edited 2/17/2015.


The content of this website is a research work in progress and is being provided to the public for informational purposes only. As such, articles may contain errors, bias, duplication, or need to be cleaned up. Some documents, images and logos contained in these documents belong to various organizations and corporations. Their inclusion here is for the benefit of the reader and for the benefit of the particular organization, but they are, in fact, the copyrighted property of those organizations. Their presence here does not imply any endorsement of CinemaTour by those organizations. CinemaTour is not affiliated with any cinema or circuit.

© 1995-2024 Vision Entertainment Services. All rights reserved.
Use of this site signifies agreement to terms of service.

www.cinematour.com :: 0.62 MB :: 6.33 MB