Central City Opera House

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 678 words | Copyright

Central City Opera House (Colorado). This gold‐rush wonder in the mountains of Colorado (one of the highest theatre structures in the world) was built in 1876 to provide a place of entertainment for the thousands of miners (and artists) passing through the region. It was designed by Robert S. Roeschlaug, who managed to use the steep slope of the site effectively and even maneuvered a stream below to cool the playhouse in summer. The boomtown of Central City floundered by the end of the nineteenth century and the theatre was briefly used for silent films before closing in 1918. But it was restored as a summer theatre in 1932 and has remained in use to this day.

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