Cheboygan Opera House
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The Cheboygan Opera House is a three-story, red brick Romanesque structure with arched doors and windows,and is built on a high, cut stone foundation. City Hall offices are on the first floor of the building, and the opera house occupies the upper stories.
Waymark Code: WMB11H
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 03/21/2011
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The first opera house in Cheboygan occupied the upper story of the first City Hall, which was built in 1877. After that structure burned in 1877, the present opera house was included in the plans for the new city hall. Built in 1888, the building housed the city hall and various municipal offices on the first floor, and an impressive auditorium, stage, and dressing rooms on the upper floors. On October 19, 1903, a fire gutted the upper floor, destroying the opera house. The auditorium was immediately rebuilt, using the original plans, and reopened in December 1904. Over the years, the Cheboygan Opera House hosted such notable celebrities as Mary Pickford, Marie Dressler, William S. Hart, and Annie Oakley, among others, and was highly regarded for its fine acoustics. The theater was at its height during the lumbering boom of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Cheboygan Opera House remains as one of the few municipally owned opera houses in the United States.
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