1886 - Kerr's Opera House - Dated Buildings and Cornerstones on Waymarking.com

The opera house was the mark of civilization in Small Town, Texas, in the late Nineteenth Century. Everyone with the slightest veneer of culture attended the performances and discussed the merits of the performers for weeks afterward. When movies began to invade the small towns, the opera houses faded. One of the few surviving today is the beautiful old building on the southeast corner of the square in Granbury, Texas. Now referred to as the Granbury Opera House, this building was restored and reopened in 1975 by the Granbury Opera Association.
When the doors opened to the public in 1886, it was called Kerr's Hall after its owner, Henry Kerr. A former city official in 1885, Kerr was the son of South Carolinian David Kerr, who married a Kentucky woman in Mississippi and then moved to Texas in 1843. In the new opera house, gas lights flickered across the gorgeous red plush (probably red velvet) and gentlemen were asked to remove their spurs for fear of spoiling the decor. The opera house building was erected in 1886, but the theatre did not officially book acts until 1891. Kerr's Hall occupied the second story of the building, above a saloon and saddle shop. There a small stage occupied one end of the floor.

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Year of construction: 1886 Cross-listed waymark: [Web Link] Full inscription: Opera House

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