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

Opera House

Name: Opera House
Address: OH, US

A opera house in Fayette County, Ohio, named in 3 atlases between 1895 and 1921.

The line reading Opera House in the 1895 atlas index — The index line as printed in the 1895 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

Atlas	Read as	Sheet
1895	Opera House	the scanned index
1900	Opera House	the scanned index
1921	Opera House	the scanned index

Named in the 1914 county history

The history of Fayette County was published 19 years after the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

A large, two-story brick town hall and corporation building was erected here in 1898 at a cost of about eighteen thousand dollars. It includes a fine opera house. The place now has a population of almost eight hundred. Its churches are the Methodist Protestant, the Methodist Episcopal, the Universalist and Church of Christ (in Church Union) and two colored organizations. See Church chapter. The lodges include the Masonic, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics.

Read the chapter on Jefferson Township.

Named in the same survey

3 establishments

The surveyors walked Fayette 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.

Establishment	Trade	Atlas
Garlner Hotel	hotel	1895
Goffman & Robinson, Planing Mill	planing mill	1895
Presbyterian Church	church	1900

Provenance

Read by machine from the printed index of the Sanborn fire insurance atlases of Fayette 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.