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- With Fox’s financial backing (the project cost more than $3 million, the equivalent of nearly $40 million today), the 250,000 square foot Fox Theatre was completed, with the crowning addition of “Mighty Mo”, the 3,622-pipe Möller organ that remains the largest Möller theatre organ in the world even today.
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With Fox’s financial backing (the project cost more than $3 million, the equivalent of nearly $40 million today), the 250,000 square foot Fox Theatre was completed, with the crowning addition of “Mighty Mo”, the 3,622-pipe Möller organ that remains the largest Möller theatre organ in the world even today.
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Originally designed as the Yaarab Shrine Temple, the headquarters for a 5,000-member Shriners organization, the $2.75 million project exceeded the Shriners' budget, so they leased the auditorium to movie mogul William Fox, who was building theaters around the country at the time.
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Audiences enthusiastically applaud the pièce de résistance of the theater, the Möller Deluxe forty-two-rank pipe organ console (affectionately called “Mighty Mo” by longtime Fox-goers) rising out of the orchestra pit. What they can’t see, however, is the organ’s 3,622 pipes hidden behind two trefoil arches supported by faux balcony boxes—all design...
The Fox was originally intended to be Atlanta’s Yaarab Temple, the meeting hall for the Shriners, part of the Masonic organization. It was designed by the firm of Marye, Alger, and Vinourto reflect the Shriners’ Moorish theme. Soon after construction began in 1927, it became apparent that the project was too expensive for the Shriners’ budget, and ...
The Fox was rescued through the efforts of Atlanta Landmarks, Inc., a nonprofit organization of interested, energetic, and committed Atlantans who purchased the property in 1975. A four-year “Save the Fox” fund-raising campaign enabled Atlanta Landmarks to pay off the mortgage in 1978. Since 1975 the Fox has operated as a multipurpose performing ar...
Dec 25, 2019 · The Fox was auctioned on the courthouse steps and sold to a private company for just $75,000. For the next three decades, the Fox still remained in high demand, showing hundreds of acclaimed...
Located on Peachtree Street at Ponce de Leon Avenue, the Fox Theatre was commissioned by Atlanta’s Shriner’s Temple, but the elaborately ornate Moorish design proved too expensive for their budget and the Shriner’s leased the building to movie mogul William Fox.
Dec 24, 2019 · But Atlantans mobilized, creating the Save The Fox campaign and ended up raising $3 million to preserve the treasured theater. In 1976, the Fox was designated a National Historic Landmark.
Built in the late 1920s, the Fox Theatre was a show palace the Atlanta Journal described as having “picturesque and almost disturbing grandeur beyond imagination.” Originally meant to be a Yaarab Shrine Temple, the Shriners soon realized the multimillion dollar construction project was out of budget.
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