The story
Michael Shea built this 2,500-seat palace as a gift to his old South Buffalo neighborhood—where he once worked the docks before building his theater empire.
Everything that was here
- 1930–1968
Shea's Seneca TheatreTheater
Michael Shea built this 2,500-seat palace as a gift to his old South Buffalo neighborhood—where he once worked the docks before building his theater empire.
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