Orpheum Theater

John W. Weatherford built this hall in 1911 as the Majestic Opera House. Heavy snow brought the roof down in 1915, and it reopened in 1917 as the Orpheum; it runs today as a music and film venue. Staff describe an electrical, prickling sensation in the men's room, and one night after closing the toilets began flushing and the taps running with nobody there. A dark figure is reported in and around the old projection booth, and a woman in white on the balcony. The story usually attached to the projection booth — an employee who took his own life there in 1917 — has no record behind it, and its dates sit awkwardly against the building's own timeline.