The Farr Best Theater - Mansfield, TX
N 32° 33.837 W 097° 08.520
14S E 674427 N 3604471
The Farr Best Theater at 109 N Main Street is a 158-seat theater in historic downtown Mansfield, hosting movies, shows, and community events. It is owned today by the City of Mansfield.
Waymark Code: WMWA7Z
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 08/01/2017
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Ticket prices will vary according to a given event. The Mansfield Commission for the Arts provides a
calendar of city events, and those taking place here are listed as being at "Historic Downtown Mansfield".
A City of Mansfield Historic Landmark sign on the building reads:
Opening October 10, 1917, the theater was operated successfully by the Farr family as Mansfield's only movie theater until the death of Roy Farr in 1975. It was sold to Charlotte Martin, who renamed it "Old Bijou Theater." In 1980, it was purchased by St. John Lutheran Church which met here until 1988. It was then sold to the Main Street Theater, Inc., a local theater group, providing entertainment in the form of live theater and stage shows.
Mansfield Historical Landmark 1996
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The Mansfield Historical Museum and Heritage Center will take you here on their Self-Guided Walking Tour #2, and they provide some complementary information:
Built in 1917 by M. M. Farr, the theater showed silent movies until 1929. It was enlarged in 1936 to double the seating. The building is a registered Mansfield Historic Landmark, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996 [QDV notes that the theater does not appear in any available National Register documentation.].