Grand Opera House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“The Grand Opera House, also known as the St. James Opera House, is a historic theater building in St.”
Wikipedia article Grand Opera House (St. James, Minnesota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Watonwan County · listed in 2009 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 502 First Ave. S., St. James, 56081
When was it listed? December 2009
Category. building
City. St. James city
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 09001152 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

2 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Watonwan County Courthouse	0.2 miles	1987
	Alfred R. Voss Farmstead	1.9 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09001152 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Watonwan County	All 6 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.