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Quinby Opera House, Wooster

A opera house in Wooster, Ohio, named in 2 atlases between 1888 and 1892.

The line reading Quinby Opera House in the 1888 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1888 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1888Quinby Opera Housethe scanned index
1892Opera 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.

Quinby Opera House
Opera House

Named in the 1878 county history

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

The first public hall of much consequence in Wooster was known as Arcadome Hall, that was built so as to be dedicated December 18, 1857. Its proprietors were Jo H. Baumgardner and Samuel Woods. The name Arcadome was coined in the poetical fancy of E. G. Clingan. It stood on East Liberty street near the present postofiice, and was destroyed by fire March 23, 1874. Another hall or opera house in the city w'as Quinby Opera House, located on the corner of Buckeye and Larwdll streets. It was formally opened February i, 1877, at which time "As You Like It" was presented to an overflowing house. This building was the enterprise of the Quinby Opera House Association, composed of Messrs. E. Quinby, Jr., president; E. P. Bates, secretary; J. H. Kauke, D. Q. Liggett, Ira H. Bates and D. C. Curry.

Read the chapter on Wooster Township.

Named in the same survey

2 establishments

The surveyors walked Wayne 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 City Hall in the 1892 atlasCity Hallcity hall1892
The index line reading First Presbyterian Church in the 1892 atlasMilton Presbyterian Churchchurch1892

Provenance

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