Cresco Opera House

	Cresco Opera House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	115 2nd Ave. W.; Cresco, Iowa
Coordinates	43°22′25″N 92°07′02″W / 43.37361°N 92.11722°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1914
Built by	Martin Johnson
Architect	Joseph Howe
Architectural style	Prairie School
NRHP reference No.	81000245
Added to NRHP	August 27, 1981

The Cresco Opera House, also known as the Cresco Theater, is a historic building located in Cresco, Iowa, United States. The first known theater in Cresco was the Lyric Hall, which opened in 1875. It showed the first movies around 1900.^[2] The Family and the Cozy theaters opened around the turn of the century. The Lyric was condemned and torn down in 1913, and the other two were considered substandard. The Cresco Commercial Club held a fundraiser in early 1914 to build an opera house. The Cresco Opera House Company was organized around the same time. The building was completed by the end of the year, and it opened in 1915. It was designed by local engineer Joseph H. Howe, and constructed by local builder Martin Johnson. The musical "High Jinks" was the first performance held in the theater. The theater, which seats 725, was equipped to show movies and there was a community hall in the basement.^[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Ralph J. Christian. "Cresco Opera House" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-02-09.

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[Christian-2] Ralph J. Christian. "Cresco Opera House" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-02-09.

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