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| Former names | Shea's Buffalo (1926-48; 1976-93) Loew's Buffalo Theater (1948-75) |
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| Address | 646 Main St Buffalo, NY 14202-1906 |
| Owner | City of Buffalo |
| Operator | Shea's O'Connell Preservation Guild Ltd. |
| Capacity | 3,019 |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | January 15, 1925 |
| Opened | January 16, 1926 |
| Closed | June 30, 1975 |
| Reopened | February 25, 1976 |
| Construction cost | $1.8 million ($31.6 million in 2023 dollars[1]) |
| Architect | Rapp Brothers |
| Structural engineer | McClintic-Marshall |
| General contractor | John Gill & Sons |
| Main contractors | Bass Construction |
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Shea's Buffalo Theatre | |
| NRHP reference No. | 75001186[2] |
| Added to NRHP | May 6, 1975 |
Shea's Performing Arts Center (originally Shea's Buffalo) is a theater for touring Broadway musicals and special events in Buffalo, New York. Originally called Shea's Buffalo, it was opened in 1926 to show silent movies. It took one year to build the entire theatre. Shea's boasts one of the few theater organs in the US that is still in operation in the theater for which it was designed.
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