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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 Norfolk County, Massachusetts, named in 3 atlases between 1899 and 1905.

The line reading Opera House in the 1899 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1899 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1899Opera Housethe scanned index
1904Opera Housethe scanned index
1905Opera Housethe scanned index

Named in the 1884 county history

The history of Norfolk County was published 15 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

On August 24, 1893, the one-act comedy entitled "My Uncle's Will" was given in the town hall for the benefit of the Needham Library Building Fund, and Miss Annie M. Clarke of the Boston Museum Company, who for more than fifteen years was a summer resident of Needham, appeared as Florence Marigold with Frank Andrews of the Grand Opera House, Boston, as Charles Cashmore. Miss Clarke is said to have also played the leading part in a drama given in Needham for the same fund, or other object of public interest.

Read the chapter on Needham Town.

Named in the same survey

20 establishments

The surveyors walked Norfolk 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 Baptist Church in the 1899 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1899
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1899 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1899
The index line reading Hatch, J. D., Carriage Shop in the 1899 atlasHateb, J. D., Carriage Shopcarriage shop1899
The index line reading Hayward, H. T., Satinette Mill in the 1899 atlasHayward, H. T., Satinette Millmill1899
The index line reading Heliotype Printing Co in the 1899 atlasHeliotype Printing Coprinting1899
The index line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1899 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1899
The index line reading New Central Hotel in the 1899 atlasNew Central Hotelhotel1899
The index line reading Crescent Hotel in the 1899 atlasOresceut Hotelhotel1899
The index line reading Prescott Hotel in the 1899 atlasPrescott Hotelhotel1899
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1899 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1899
The index line reading Public School,.* in the 1899 atlasVine Street Publie Schoolschool1899
The index line reading Grant, G.H., Carpenter Shop in the 1904 atlasGrant, G.H., Carpenter Shopshop1904
The index line reading High School in the 1904 atlasHigh Schoolschool1904
The index line reading Ice Co., Ice Houses in the 1904 atlasIce Co., Ice Housesice house1904
The index line reading Jefferson School in the 1904 atlasJefferson Schoolschool1904
The index line reading Catholie Church in the 1904 atlasMethodist Churchchurch1904
The index line reading Whiting, G. R., Shoddy Mill in the 1904 atlasRay & Wilson, Shoddy Millmill1904
The index line reading Stony Brook Mill in the 1904 atlasStony Brook Millmill1904
The index line reading Color Works in the 1905 atlasReadville Color Worksworks1905
The index line reading Tileston & Hollingsworth Co. Paper Mills 25 in the 1905 atlasTileston & Hollingsworth Co., Paper Mill, 10mill1905

Provenance

Read by machine from the printed index of the Sanborn fire insurance atlases of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, 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.