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Fort Peck Theatre
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Missouri Ave. Fort Peck, Montana
Coordinates	48°0′27″N 106°27′0″W / 48.00750°N 106.45000°W / 48.00750; -106.45000
Area	1.2 acres (0.49 ha)
Built	1934
Built by	Eugene Frank Gilstrap / C.F. Haglin Co.
Architectural style	Swiss Chalet
NRHP reference No.	83001077
Added to NRHP	June 27, 1983

The Fort Peck Theatre was built as a temporary structure in 1934 in Fort Peck, Montana, to serve as a movie theatre. It is also known as the Fort Peck Summer Theatre. The theater was designed in a pseudo-Swiss-chalet style as an amenity for the 50,000 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers workers and their families at the Fort Peck Dam project. The interior features open-truss wood construction, with handcrafted light fixtures fabricated in Corps of Engineers workshops. The theater survived to become a permanent facility, and in 2008 was in use as a community theater.

The building includes a stage, a 1209-seat auditorium, a lounge, a foyer, a lobby, a manager's office, and four dressing rooms. It was designed and/or built by Eugene Frank Gilstrap and the C.F. Haglin Co.

Its NRHP nomination compares it to the architecturally significant Timberline Lodge in Oregon.

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "History". Fort Peck Summer Theatre. October 30, 2008. Archived from the original on February 28, 2009. Retrieved October 30, 2008.
3. ^ Jack W. Nickels Jr. and Mary Moore (June 26, 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Fort Peck Theatre / Fort Peck Summer Theatre". National Park Service. Retrieved July 10, 2017. With 11 photos from 1972 and two from 1985.

External links

• Fort Peck Summer Theatre

v t e National Register of Historic Places in Valley County, Montana
Historic district	Fort Peck Original Houses Historic District
Historic properties	Administration Building Employee's Hotel and Garage First National Bank of Glasgow Fort Peck Dam Fort Peck Theatre Garage and Fire Station Glasgow Army Airfield Norden Bombsight Storage Vault Hospital Recreation Hall Rundle Building Charles C. Sargent House US Post Office and Courthouse-Glasgow Main
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Valley County, Montana and List of National Historic Landmarks in Montana

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• Fort Peck, Montana
• Swiss Chalet Revival architecture
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