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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 Worcester County, Massachusetts, named in 4 atlases between 1887 and 1905.

The line reading Opera House in the 1887 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1887 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1887Opera Housethe scanned index
1896Opera Housethe scanned index
1901Opera Housethe scanned index
1905Miller's Opera 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
Miller's Opera House

Named in the 1889 county history

The history of Worcester County was published 2 years after the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

On the north side of Main Street, near Prichard Street, is Whitney's Opera House building, which contains the only theatre in town. Andrew Whitney built and owns this block. The lower story is devoted to stores and the theatre occupies the upper portion. The auditorium has a seating capacity of about one thousand. This theatre was first opened to the public October 20, 1881, and has enjoyed a good patronage since.

Read the chapter on Worcester City.

Named in the same survey

24 of 44 establishments shown

The surveyors walked Worcester 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. See all 44 in Worcester County.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Baptist Church in the 1887 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1887
The index line reading St. Bernard Catholie Church in the 1887 atlasCatholie Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Central Hotel in the 1887 atlasCentral Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading Champion Mills in the 1887 atlasChampion Millsmill1887
The index line reading Calvin Congregational Church in the 1887 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Exchange Street Hotel in the 1887 atlasExchange Street Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading High School in the 1887 atlasHigh Schoolschool1887
The index line reading Wood Works in the 1887 atlasM. Estate, Wood Worksworks1887
The index line reading Massasoit Hotel in the 1887 atlasMassasoit Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1887 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Miller, C.,Furniture Fact in the 1887 atlasMiller, C.,Furniture Factmill1887
The index line reading National Hotel in the 1887 atlasNational Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading Orthodox Church in the 1887 atlasOrthodox Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Catholic Church in the 1887 atlasRoman Catholic Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Union Hotel in the 1887 atlasUnion Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading Unitarian Church in the 1887 atlasUnitarian Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1887 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Valley Mill in the 1887 atlasValley Millmill1887
The index line reading Allan, G.,Cotton Mill in the 1896 atlasAllan, G, Cotton Millmill1896
The index line reading Davis, C. D., Box Shop in the 1896 atlasBox SHOPshop1896
The index line reading Goodspeed, G. N., Machine Shop in the 1896 atlasGoodspeed, G. N., Machine Shopmachine shop1896
The index line reading Hill & Bosley's Foundry in the 1896 atlasHill & Bosley, Foundryfoundry1896
The index line reading Hotel Winchendon in the 1896 atlasHotel Winchendonhotel1896
The index line reading Kauffman, W. H., Woolen Mill in the 1896 atlasKauffman, W. H., Woolen Millmill1896

Provenance

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