Summit Playhouse
Summit Playhouse | |
 Original 1891 building | |
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| Location | 10 New England Avenue Summit, New Jersey |
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| Built | ca. 1891 |
| Architect | Arthur Bates Jennings |
| Architectural style | Romanesque |
| NRHP reference No. | 09001177 [1] |
| NJRHP No. | 4407 [2] |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | December 30, 2009 |
| Designated NJRHP | September 29, 2009 |
The Summit Playhouse is a theater in Summit, New Jersey and home to one of the oldest continuously operating amateur community theaters in the United States[3] producing a new show each calendar season.[4] In 2011, it presented Meet Me in St. Louis,[5] Closer Than Ever,[6] and Speed the Plow.[3]
History
[edit | edit source]The original stone Romanesque building designed by Arthur Bates Jennings was constructed in 1891 as the town's first library.[1] A municipally-operated Summit Public Library was established in 1900, and in 1910 the library was moved to another building, leaving the Romanesque building under-utilized but still belonging to the library. In 1918, The Playhouse Association was founded as a World War I relief organization, and the theatrical group rented the empty older library from the Summit Library Association for one dollar a year for the next fifty years on condition that the group maintain the facility. In 1960, a 120-seat auditorium was added and the original 1891 structure was converted into a stage. The Summit Library Association officially deeded the building to the theater in 1968.[4]
Directors
[edit | edit source]- Norman Lee Swartout (1918)[7]
References
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External links
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- Library buildings completed in 1891
- Buildings and structures in Union County, New Jersey
- Tourist attractions in Union County, New Jersey
- Summit, New Jersey
- Community theatre
- Theatres on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey
- National Register of Historic Places in Union County, New Jersey
- 1891 establishments in New Jersey
- New Jersey Register of Historic Places