Pike's Opera House was a theater in Cincinnati owned by distiller and entrepreneur Samuel Napthali Pike (1822–1872).[1] Located on Fourth Street between Vine and Walnut streets, it was the first home of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
- ^ Pike was a German Jew, born in 1822 in Schwetzingen/Baden, Germany. His birth name was "Samuel N. Hecht"; his family changed the name in 1827 in the USA to "Pike". See: Rehs, Michael. Wurzeln in fremder Erde: Zur Geschichte der südwestdeutschen Auswanderung nach Amerika (Stuttgart: DRW-Verlag, 1984) ISBN 3-87181-231-5.