The Study Center
The completed Study Center on the Alamo Theatre's second floor will include worktables, video viewing stations, and new shelving. At least 2,000 reference videos are ready to be viewed, and many times that amount of original material awaits further curatorial work.
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Staff & Support Areas
Staff offices, work spaces and a meeting room, along with restrooms and utility closets, will complete the renovation of the original building.
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Museum
The lobby on first floor of the Alamo Theatre needs to be transformed into a dynamic museum devoted to the history of moviegoing and amateur filmmaking in northern New England. The goal is for NHF to be a destination for both the general public and school fieldtrips, combining exhibitions of both equipment and moving images from NHF's collections. Even without a completed museum space, the Alamo was named an Editor's Pick by Yankee Magazine and included in the AAA TourBook.
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Exterior Renovations & Elm Street Park
The side entrance to, and emergency exit from, the Alamo is through a small but potentially elegant alley owned by NHF. Bar Harbor landscape designer Sam Coplon created plans for turning this unused space into a vest-pocket park suitable for discussions after shows - or a place to have an ice cream on a hot day. The Alamo Theatre building requires extensive repairs to its facade and the new Conservation Center also requires redefined exterior areas and parking.
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Architectural plan for the main NHF entrance and parking lot.
Drawing by Terry Rankine
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Endowment
Embodied in our goal is a dedicated endowment to build and sustain outreach programs for educators, students, and the public. This endowment is in complementary support of the primary principle of upgrading The Alamo - a valuable historic landmark - so that it may serve present and future generations as the preeminent moving-image archives center in the Northeast.
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