Central City Opera House

Central City Opera House
The Opera House in 1982
Central City Opera House is located in Colorado
Central City Opera House
Central City Opera House is located in the United States
Central City Opera House
LocationEureka St., Central City, Colorado
Coordinates39°48′4″N 105°30′47″W / 39.80111°N 105.51306°W / 39.80111; -105.51306
Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built1878
Architectural styleRenaissance Revival[2]
NRHP reference No.73000474[1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 18, 1973

The Central City Opera House is located in the Central City/Black Hawk Historic District in Central City, Colorado, United States. It was constructed in 1878.[3] It has offered operatic and theatrical productions that drew prominent actors and performers in the late 19th-century, and in the early 20th-century it was a motion picture theater.

The opera house was designated to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[2][a]

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ a b Liston E. Leyendecker (January 13, 1973). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Central City Opera House". National Park Service. Retrieved June 15, 2018. With accompanying photos
  3. ^ Leggett, Ann (August 18, 2009). Insiders' Guide® to Boulder and Rocky Mountain National Park. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 171. ISBN 978-0-7627-5624-7.
  4. ^ Fisher, James (April 16, 2015). Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-8108-7833-4.
  5. ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination" (pdf). National Park Service. July 1990.


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