Campus Theatre is an entertainment venue in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania , United States. Opened in 1941, and located on Market Street , it is one of the few single-screen Art Deco movie houses in the country still in operation, and forms part of Lewisburg Historic District . It is now owned by Bucknell University and leased to The Campus Theatre Ltd.
5-626: The theater, designed by David Supowitz , was founded by the Steifel brothers (Oscar, Harold, Moritz (Morris) and Barney), Russian immigrants who ran an empire across New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Its opening night was January 17, 1941, when it showed the Jack Benny and Fred Allen musical comedy Love Thy Neighbor . Morris's son, Harold, took over the management of the theater in 1953, when his uncle, Barney, retired. In 2001, Bucknell University film and media studies professor Eric Faden purchased
10-517: The University of Pennsylvania (class of 1915) with a Bachelor of Science in architecture. He earned his master's degree in 1916. During high school, he spent the summers working for John T. Windrim . In October 1916, he began working for Magaziner and Potter , before returning to Windrim in April for five more months. In October 1917, aged 20, Supowitz moved to Washington, D.C., where he worked for
15-554: The U.S. Naval Construction Division. He returned to Philadelphia in 1919, when he began working for Stanley Neubauer. He later became partner in the company Neubauer and Supowitz. The firm was in business until 1926, and Supowitz continued in sole practice through 1963. In 1928, he opened a new office at 260 South 15th Street in Philadelphia. He shared an office with Israel Demchick and Shander Berger from 1945, and went into business as Supowitz and Demchick in 1963. Supowitz became
20-491: The theater from Jacquie Steifel, Harold's widow, and founded Campus Theatre Ltd. as a nonprofit organization . Five years later, Bucknell purchased the building and leased it back to Campus Theatre Ltd. for $ 1 a year. The theater underwent a $ 2.5 million renovation in 2011, including the addition of the Bucknell Bison logo on its facade. David Supowitz David Supowitz (June 19, 1893 – May 17, 1964)
25-512: Was an American architect and philanthropist. He was the architect of over 500 buildings in the Delaware Valley , mostly theaters but also synagogues, schools and hospitals. Supowitz was born in 1894 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . He had a sister, future Mrs. Frank Roberts, of Longmeadow, Massachusetts . He studied at South Philadelphia High School (class of 1911) and later graduated from
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