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Decorative drawing: a nineteenth-century shop front seen close. Not a photograph of this place.

Opera House

A opera house in Defiance County, Ohio, named in 4 atlases between 1893 and 1913.

The line reading Iyer's Opera House,:: in the 1893 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1893 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1893Iyer's Opera House,::the scanned index
1899Mver's Opera Housethe scanned index
1908Opera Housethe scanned index
1913Opera Housethe scanned index

How the name was read

Each atlas was set in type by a different hand and scanned decades later, so the same establishment comes back spelled differently. Every reading below was produced by the recogniser from the sheets; none was corrected or invented. They are published so a search for any of them finds this page.

Opera House
Iyer's Opera House,::
Mver's Opera House

Named in the 1883 county history

The history of Defiance County was published 10 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

Frank J. Shead was born on Court street, in the city of Defiance, Ohio, August 13, 1856. His grandparents, Orson Shead and Lucy (Upham) Shead, were born in Stockbridge, Mass. ; the former September 4, 1797, the latter March 21, 17'J5. In 1821, they moved to New York, settling in DeKalb Township, St. Lawrence County. They had a family of five children - Oliver, Emeline, Celistie, Lorrin J. and Alonzo M. The boys are siill living. Alonzo M. was a former resident of Defiance, but now a resident of New Madrid, Mo., Oliver was also a former resident of this town, and a contractor and builder, at an early day building what was known as the old Brown warehouse, located at the northwest corner of Clinton street bridge, on the north side of the Maumee River, and since destroyed by fire.

Read the chapter on Defiance Township.

Named in the same survey

3 establishments

The surveyors walked Defiance County once and wrote down what they found. These are the other establishments from the same atlas, each with the line it was read from.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Episcopal Church in the 1893 atlasEpiscopal Churchchurch1893
The index line reading Gibson, W., Machine Shop in the 1893 atlasGibson, W., Machine Shopmachine shop1893
The index line reading Presbyterian Church in the 1908 atlasPresbyterian Churchchurch1908

Provenance

Read by machine from the printed index of the Sanborn fire insurance atlases of Defiance County, Ohio, held by the Library of Congress. Sanborn atlases published before 1930 are in the public domain. Only names that at least three of four independent readings agreed on are published, and no spelling has been corrected: what appears here is what the recogniser returned from the ink.