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The Opera House

This building was erected by the

Town of Newberry, and dedicated

in February of 1882. An outstanding

example of Victorian civic architecture

of eclectic design, it was placed on

the National Register of Historic

Places in 1969. Now housing city

offices, the Opera House was ...

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The Demopolis Opera House / Lillian Hellman And

The Little Foxes

The Demopolis Opera House

In 1876, the town of Demopolis leased the former

Presbyterian Church, a classic brick structure

built in 1843 and occupied by federal troops during

Reconstruction, to the Demopolis Opera Association.

The association revitalized the building as a theater

for live ...

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The Opera House

Hayford Hall was built between 1866 and 1868 by Axel Hayford, a local contractor and businessman. It housed businesses on the lower level and a ballroom/theater with a balcony on the second level. Renamed the Belfast Opera House in 1883, ...

The Garcia Opera House

Using the gold he had left her, the widow of Juan Nepomuceno Garcia began construction of the Garcia Opera House is 1884. It was completed three years later in 1887. It served as the main center for cultural and community ...

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The Fife Opera House

The Fife Opera House, located on the second floor of the Fife Hardware Store, was built by David Fife. It operated from 1901-1912.

It seated 700 people on red leather seats, had electric fans and was heated with a coal furnace. ...

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The Imperial Opera House

Erected - 1910

Sanford's center for entertainment, the Imperial Opera House opened June 15, 1910. The contractor W.G. Hammond built the building for the owners T.J. Miller and son. George A. DeCottes was the first lessee of this building which replaced ...

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The Grand Opera House

Built here, 1858 - - operated until 1919.

Julia Marlowe made her debut in this famous

theater and such great actors as Edwin Booth,

Maude Adams, Joseph Jefferson, John Drew, and

The Barrymores played to large and appreciative

audiences.

Marker is on North 2nd Street north ...

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Opera Houses & Theaters

The Adelphi, Fort Worth’s first vaudeville theater, opened in 1876 at 3rd & Main but soon closed. Within a month, the “Theatre Comique” occupied the site, attracting audiences to its popular presentations of western-style variety entertainment. Greenwall’s Opera House opened ...

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The Woodland Opera House

The first opera house to serve the Sacramento Valley was built on this site in 1885. The present structure, built in 1895-96, continues to represent an important center for theatrical arts of that period. Erected by David N. Hershey and ...

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The French Opera House

 

The INN ON BOURBON on the corner of Toulouse and Bourbon Streets, rests on the site of the Old French Opera House, for 60 years, the cultural center of New Orleans Creole society, and the first opera house in ...

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