Although primarily known for its industrial history, Mt. Pleasant was also a center for the arts for many years beginning around the turn of the 20th Century. Music and theatre were major parts of the town's culture. In the late 19th Century, citizens could attend plays, musicals, and vaudeville acts at the Grand Opera House, which stood at the current site of the Standard Bank parking lot. From 1913 through 1922, the Mt. Pleasant Music School operated in the former Mt. Pleasant Institute building on South Church Street, where Frick Hospital now stands, and several townspeople also taught music from their homes. In 1907, the Nickelodeon, the town's first theatre devoted especially to motion pictures, opened on West Main Street. The Cox Theatre, later known as the Penn Theatre, opened on East Main Street in the 1910s, and movie admission ranged from 25 to 75 cents. In the 1930s, the Grand Opera House became a motion picture theatre and was renamed the Grand Theatre. Both the Penn and the Grand theatres entertained Mt. Pleasant citizens for many years during the 20th Century.