Beaver Opera House
Beaver Opera House | |
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Location | 55 E. Center St., Beaver, Utah |
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Coordinates | 38°16′29″N 112°38′23″W / 38.27472°N 112.63972°WCoordinates: 38°16′29″N 112°38′23″W / 38.27472°N 112.63972°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Architect | Liljenberg and Maeser |
NRHP reference No. | 82004078[1] |
Added to NRHP | February 11, 1982 |
The Beaver Opera House, at 55 E. Center St. in Beaver, Utah, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]
It originally had capacity for 1,000 seated persons.[2]
It was designed and built by architects Liljenberg and Maeser, for $20,000.[2]
It is built of tuff, the pink stone that is used in many other Beaver buildings.[2]
It served as a "center for community and church affairs" and as a theatre for about two decades.
Performers included , Ralph Cloninger, , and .
From 1929 to c.1955, it was used for offices and storage by the Utah National Guard.[2][3]
References[]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ a b c d Linda Bonar; Fred Aegerter (1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Beaver Opera House". National Park Service. Retrieved May 22, 2019. With accompanying two photos from 1980
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External links[]
- Beaver Opera House, at UtahTheaters.info, lists additional sources: "Chapter 6 Entrance into the Twentieth Century 1900-1920", A History of Beaver County, Martha Sonntag Bradley; "Beaver Opera House Promotors Thought Big", The History Blazer, June 1996, Utah State History CD-ROM; The Weekly Press, 20 November 1914.
Categories:
- Opera houses
- National Register of Historic Places in Beaver County, Utah
- Utah Registered Historic Place stubs