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Grand Opera House/Madison Theater-222-224 West Main Street-Another view
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Title
Grand
Opera
House/Madison
Theater-222-224
West
Main
Street-Another
view
Subject
Theaters
Description
The
original
structure
was a
Methodist
Church
erected
in the
1850s
.
When
it
was
converted
into an
opera
house
, there was
additional
space
added
in the
back
for a
stage
area
. A
balcony
was
needed
and a
new
facade
was
added
.
It
opened
in
1886
and the
building
remained
basically
the
same
until
its
destruction
on
March
17
,
1960
. The
original
opera
house
presented
everything
from
Shakespeare
to
Uncle
Tom's
Cabin
,
ballet
to
soft
shoe
, but as the
new
innovation
,
movies
,
came
into
being
, the
opera
house
began
to
move
to
modernization
.
After
the
turn
of the
century
,
stage
presentations
gave
way
to the
innovation
of
silent
movies
. In
1929-30
George
Holwager
,
manager
,
announced
the
acquistion
of
equipment
to
enable
the
theater
to
present
"
talking
movies.
" In
1935
"
high
fidelity
" was
introduced
by
Jeanette
McDonald
and
Nelson
Eddy
in "
Naughty
Marietta.
"
Another
modern
discovery
may
have
helped
contribute
to the
demise
of the
old
theater
. With the
advent
of
TV
,
movie
houses
all
over
the
country
were
finding
it
hard
to
compete
. The
grand
old
lady
was
leveled
to
make
way
for a
parking
lot
in
1960
.
Creator
Harry Lemen, photographer
Eastman-Kodak Brownie Camera No. 2C model A.
Contributors
Madison-Jefferson County Public Library
Date
Torn down March 1960; picture taken 1927
Type
Image scanned from prints created by Hiram Lemen
Format
1200 DPI, online JPG saved at 72 DPI 1000 pixels on long edge with a MicroTek ScanMaker 9800XL.
Identifier
"Lemen1030-grandopera"
Source
Madison Courier
Historical Files
Rights
Permission to reproduce this image for other than personal use must be requested from the Director of the Madison-Jefferson County Public Library. Please contact at 420 W. Main Street Madison, IN 47250 (812) 265-2744
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