November 25, 2019 – West Bend, WI – On Friday, November 22, 2019 the West Bend Theater, aka the Historic West Bend Theatre, Inc. was added to the State Register of Historic Places by the Wisconsin Historical Society. The theatre, 125 N. Main Street, dates to 1929.
Pictured (left to right): Jeff Potts, executive director of the Historic West Bend Theatre, Inc.; Daina Penkiunas, state historic preservation officer, Wisconsin Historical Society; Herb Stratford, president, Historic Theatre Consultants.
According to the Wisconsin Historical Society “eligible properties must retain the essential physical appearance of the period in which they were important, and meet one of four criteria.”
