TITLE

Nonprofit group plans restoration of Fox Theatre

AUTHOR(S)

Kjos

PUB. DATE

November 1999

SOURCE

Inside Tucson Business;11/29/99, Vol. 9 Issue 36, p1

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Reports that Fox Tucson Theatre Foundation, a nonprofit organization, is planning to restore and reopen the Fox Theatre located in Tucson, Arizona. Design and construction of the theater; Sources of funds for restoring the theater; Comments of Herb Stratford, the executive director of the foundation on the historical background of the theater.

ACCESSION #

2560488

Tags: ARCHITECTURE -- Conservation & restoration;  THEATERS

 

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