40. Shea’s Buffalo
622-644 Main Street
 Shea's Performing Arts Center is a spectacularly restored 1926 opera house. Its Classic styling boasts an opulent Baroque interior design by Tiffany studios with walls of Italian marble, crystal chandeliers from Czechoslovakia, lush red carpeting, furnishings from Chicago's Marshall Field.
The building was designed by Cornelius and George Rapp, who were among the most important and influential American theatre architects of the period. Considered one of the finest examples of the great movie palaces of the era, it was commissioned by Buffalo entertainment pioneer Michael Shea to be the flagship of his theatre chain.
Photo courtesy of Chuck LaChiusa
Credits
Scripts: Denise Prince and Jane Kwiatkowski
Voice: Christopher Jamele of Jamele Freelance Services
Audio production: John Davis of Eclectic Electric
This project was made possible in part with funding from the New York State Council on the Arts.
Tour content courtesy of Buffalo Tours.
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