City Opera House

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City Opera House
Type Concert Hall
Industry Recreation
Fate Dissolved
Headquarters Wooster, Ohio, United States
Number of locations 130 E Liberty St, Wooster, Ohio
Products Concert hall
Building
General information
Status Demolished
Type City Fathers approved dual role: Headquarters for City Hall and as an Entertainment Center. Rear of building was the Fire Department
Town or city Wooster, Ohio
Country United States
Construction started Voters approved bond issues totally $60,000
Completed 1887
Relocated Sept. 1949 - General repairs $49,000 - Opera House portion was converted to use as Municipal Courtrooms
Dimensions
Other dimensions Sloping floor helped bring the audience closer. Acoustics was said to hear whispers on the stage at each of the corners of the hall.

Featured guests: President Warren G. Harding; Senator, Simeon Fess, and Senator Frank Willis.

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Clean the Basement

  • Clean the Basement. [1]

The basement at the City Opera House is clean for the first time in several years. As might be expected the basement there is used for the most part to store things that are not wanted up above. One part is the city lockup and this, or course, is always kept in good shape. The remainder of the big basement, though, was full of rubbish. The Boone brothers were engaged to do the work of hauling it away and they hauled a great many wagon loads before it was all removed. There were several tons of coal left over from the time the opera house was heated with coal. This was taken to the city pumping station at Bloomington. Several loads of old boxes and boards, old paper and rubbish of all kinds were removed. A box of fireworks was found among the rubbish. It was stated Wednesday afternoon that this box had been there for several years. City officials regarded the basement as a fire menace in its former condition.

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  • 1887


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  • Sanborn Maps 1888

  • Sanborn Maps 1898

  • Sanborn Maps 1905

  • Sanborn Maps 1911

  • Sanborn Maps 1930

  • Sanborn Maps 1930-1945

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1900s

  • Page 2 of Wooster Republican, published in Wooster, Ohio on Wednesday, June 17th, 1903.jpeg
  • Page 3 of Wayne County Democrat, published in Wooster, Ohio on Wednesday, October 5th, 1904.jpeg
  • Page 2 of Wayne County Democrat, published in Wooster, Ohio on Wednesday, November 2nd, 1904 (2).jpeg

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  • December 1959: "Memories You Can't Erase: Repair Edict Recalls Wooster Opera House Era" by Barbara Gordon, Akron Beacon Journal, p. 123.

References

  1. ↑ Wayne County Democrat, Wooster, Ohio. 1912 Feb. 7, p. 1.
  2. ↑ Wooster Daily Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1917-03-22, p. 4.
  3. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1917-02-14, p. 4.
  4. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1917-02-14, p. 4.
  5. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1917-05-15, p. 5.
  6. ↑ Wooster Daily Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1917-06-12, p. 2
  7. ↑ Wooster Daily News. Wooster, Ohio, 1917-09-19, p. 1.
  8. ↑ Wooster Daily News. Wooster, Ohio, 1917-10-01, p. 3.
  9. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1917-10-31, p. 5.
  10. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1917-10-31, p. 6.
  11. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1917-12-22, p. 4.
  12. ↑ Wooster Daily Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1918-01-07 p. 0
  13. ↑ Wooster Daily Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1918-02-14, p. 0
  14. ↑ Wooster Daily Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1918-02-14, p. 0
  15. ↑ Wooster Daily Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1918-02-20, p. 3
  16. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1918-03-30.
  17. ↑ Wooster Daily Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1918-04-19, p. 2
  18. ↑ Wooster Daily Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1918-04-19, p. 6
  19. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1918-04-22.
  20. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1918-06-12.
  21. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1919-01-02, p. 2.
  22. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1919-03-31, p. 4.
  23. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1919-04-21, p. 6.
  24. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1919-11-24, p. 3.
  25. ↑ Wooster Daily Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1919-11-24, p. 3.
  26. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1920-01-02, p. 6.
  27. ↑ Wooster Daily Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1920-01-17, p. 3.
  28. ↑ Wooster Daily Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1920-01-19, p. 4.
  29. ↑ Wooster Daily Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1920-01-21, p. 2.
  30. ↑ Wooster Daily Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1920-01-23, p. 4.

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