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Peoria Presbyterian Church – Built in 1899 the church is the oldest building in the original Peoria Townsite. The church is located at 10236 83rd. Ave. (NRHP) The Peoria Central School – The school was a two-room school built in 1906. It is currently occupied by the Peoria Arizona Historical Society Museum located at 10304 N. 83rd Ave. (NRHP)
The Peoria Center for the Performing Arts is a community theater and event space located in the historic Old Town district of Peoria, Arizona. The building houses two theaters. The venue was completed and a dedication ceremony was held on December 15, 2006 as a joint venture with the City of Peoria and the theater company, Theater Works, who ...
Theater Works is a non-profit community theater company that operates out of the Peoria Center for the Performing Arts in Peoria, Arizona. The company produces more than 200 events a year for audiences of all ages, including their own productions as well as running and managing outside productions and rentals that use the arts center.
Peoria is in northern Maricopa County, with the city limits extending north into Yavapai County. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 179.2 square miles (464 km 2 ), of which 176.1 square miles (456 km 2 ) are land and 3.2 square miles (8.3 km 2 ), or 1.77%, are water. [ 1 ]
Playing in Peoria: When Jimmy Buffett helped bring streaking to central Illinois On the outbreak's one-year anniversary, the Journal Star began a five-part, front-page series on the incident and ...
The theater was originally listed for $8.5 million. Blickenstaff spent $5 million renovating the 100-year-old building he purchased in 2019, transforming it into an 800-seat theater equipped with ...
The theater opened in the 1910s, with a capacity of 1,000 people. In 1965, the theater became the "Town Theatre", eventually showing adult films and featuring live burlesque by 1967. In the 1970s, it was purchased by Dale Niedermaier and John May, refurbished and reopened as "Park West", the music venue and special events space May 11, 1977.
In 1957, a second Peoria Bergner's location opened at the then-suburban Sheridan Village Shopping Center. Between 1961 and 1973, the Sheridan Village location sold the most merchandise per square foot of any department store in the United States. This Bergner's was the largest department store in Illinois outside of the Chicago area.