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The mission of the Midland Foundation is to provide and encourage people of all ages to develop their full creative potential through community activities, visual and performing arts. The Foundation strives, through the Arts and community activities, to create a unique environment in which people of all ages, abilities, and experience can participate.
The Midland Theater was purchased by the City of Coffeyville in the late 1990s and was later deeded to the Midland Foundation, which was incorporated in October 2004, for the purpose of restoring and operating the Midland Theater and the adjacent Alamo building.
The Midland Theater Foundation has developed a plan which will involve both the historical Midland Theater and the Alamo Building, an adjacent two story commercial building built in 1917. The two buildings will be linked via internal doorways. The Alamo Building will provide much-need the necessary support spaces for the theater to be a performing arts facility. The project will include full interior and exterior restoration of the Midland, along with rehabilitation of the Alamo Building. The Alamo Building will have lobbies, concession areas, meeting spaces, and handicap accessible restrooms. The combination will allow, a more complete restoration of the historic theater and make the entire project self supporting in the future.
Located at 212-214 West 8th Street in Coffeyville, Kansas the Midland Theater is a two-story, brick building with a terra cotta facade. The building was constructed in 1928 as a palace for moving pictures. The Midland was built to combine the magic of "talkies" and the appeal of the jazz dance halls. It was a testament to the Roaring 20's and the jazz age. The Spanish/Mission Revival styling of the theater reflects the Moorish influences that was the height of commercial building at the time.
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