Fifth Mountain Mural Project - see the mural in progress!!
Come see how the Fifth Mountain Mural Project is coming and follow along as new paintings are posted regularly.
The Park Theatre is a 13,320 square foot building in downtown Jaffrey, New Hampshire. The theatre itself is nearly 5000 square feet and once held 720 horsehair-stuffed leather seats set in an Art Deco décor. Built in 1922 and added onto several times, this theatre presented movies, plays, vaudeville, and community events for 54 years. For the past 30 years, the theatre has been a warehouse for picture frames, bicycles and sports equipment.
The town of Jaffrey, founded in 1773, is situated in the southwestern corner of the state and is the home of Mount Monadnock, the most climbed mountain in the United States. Surrounding the town and encompassing two counties are the twenty-four towns of the Monadnock Region: Jaffrey, Nelson, Roxbury, Keene, Marlborough, Swanzey, Troy, Sullivan, Gilsum, Surry, Westmoreland, Chesterfield, Hinsdale, Winchester, Richmond, Fitzwilliam, Hancock, Peterborough, Harrisville, Dublin, Sharon, Temple, New Ipswich and Rindge. There are 100,000 year-round residents in these towns as well as an additional 50,000 summer and weekend visitors to the region.
Jaffrey is less than two hours driving time from Boston, Massachusetts, slightly more than two hours from Hartford, Connecticut and Providence, Rhode Island and four hours from New York City. The town boasts its own airport and is an energetic and diverse community that is home to 5,765 souls.
On February 15, 2006, the Trustees of The Park Theatre Corporation, with funds raised privately from people in 11 towns in the region and 13 states across the country, purchased the theatre with the intention to restore and reopen it. They are committed to the vision that “The Park Theatre will be a regional center for the arts and entertainment, a meeting place for the community and a dynamic force in the region’s vitality and quality of life.”
