PERRY'S EGYPTIAN THEATER - Ogden Music and Theater

Full Amenity List

• Wheelchair Accessible

Descriptions from Across the Web

• Built in 1923, Peery's Egyptian Theater (PET) has gone through many remodels, the most recent one occurring in 1997. It now serves the community as a performing arts/movie theater. The theater seats 855 patrons on the main level, and another ... more on gocitykids.com
• Through a complex partnership that included Weber County, Ogden City, Weber State University, Egyptian Theatre Foundation, and Ogden/Weber Chamber of Commerce, not only ... more on peerysegyptiantheater.com
• Peery's Egyptian Theatre is a movie palace located at 2439 Washington Blvd., in Ogden, Utah in the United States of America. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Peery's Egyptian Theatre was built after the fiery demise of the Arlington Hotel in 1923. Harman and Louis Peery devised a plan to build a grand theater, "The Showplace of the West". The architectural firm of Hodgson & McClenahan, notable for many important Wasatch Front landmarks, was hired for the task. They took cues from many of the most famous western theaters, including Grauman's Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, and settled upon an Egyptian-themed showhouse. Construction began in 1923 on the cleared area left from the Arlington Hotel, and incidentally, the location of the Peery's first Ogden home. Ten months passed, and on July 3, 1924, the Egyptian opened. The first feature played at the new theater was Zane Grey's Wanderers of the Wasteland. This "natural ... more on wikipedia

Directions

From Ogden, UT Head north on Washington Blvd

Hours

Open daily from dawn until dusk.

Miscellaneous

• Admission: Varies by performance.
• Events: http://www.milwaukeecountyhistsoc.org/trimborn_programs.htm

Other Web Resources

• www.peerysegyptiantheater.com