サトラー劇場（ザットラー）は1914年にオープンした、ジョン・G・サトラーによって設立されました。デザインは、バッファローの様々な劇場の設計を手がけた建築家ヘンリー・L・スパンによって設計。劇場としての役目を終えた建物は、様々な宗教の活動の場として転用されまし

WHEN JOHN SATTLER DECIDED TO BUILD HIS BEAUX-ARTS STYLE THEATER IN BUFFALO, NY, HE FORGOT THE FIRST RULE OF REAL ESTATE: LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION.Sattler’s Department Store (Source: forgottenbuffalo.com)Mr. Sattler had years before founded one of the first department stores in the country, and his business sense told him to get in on the area’s movie theater boom of the early 1910s. So, not far from his store—but quite far from the downtown and culture-dense William Street theater districts.He hired well-known theater architects Henry and William Spann to build a beautiful theater, like none in the area. It would be placed on the site of an older theater, the Casino Theater, and would not feature a stage, unlike its predecessor. The front would be glazed terra cotta, and the inside could accommodate up to 1,200 people.IT WAS MODERN IN EVERY RESPECT, JUST AS SATTLER ORDERED, WHEN IT OPENED IN LATE 1914.Away from other cultural centers.Away from customers.

The Sattler Theater, commissioned by John G. Sattler who owned Sattler’s Department Store, opened on the site of the Casino Theatre in 1914. 1 The 928-seat venue was designed in the Beaux-Arts architectural style by Henry Spann and his brother, William Spann, and completed at the cost of $35,000.The Sattler became the Broadway Theatre in 1920, 1 and a Marr & Colton two-manual organ and vaudeville stage was installed shortly after. 2 The Basil brothers took over operations and renamed the theater Basil’s Broadway. 1 2The Broadway was converted for use as Muhammad’s Mosque 23 church in the mid-1960s, with the project receiving acclaim after being visited by Malcolm X and Mohammed Al. 2 It then became God’s Holy Temple between 1976 and 1984 and Joy Temple Church from 1987 to 1996. 1 2In 2008, Western New York Minority Media Professionals purchased the abandoned theater for $40,000 with the intent to remodel the complex for its headquarters. 1 2