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Beaver Opera House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Building in 2010.
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Location	55 E. Center St., Beaver, Utah
Coordinates	38°16′29″N 112°38′23″W / 38.27472°N 112.63972°W / 38.27472; -112.63972 (Beaver Opera House)
Area	less than one acre
Architect	Liljenberg and Maeser
NRHP reference No.	82004078
Added to NRHP	February 11, 1982

The Beaver Opera House, at 55 E. Center St. in Beaver, Utah, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

It originally had capacity for 1,000 seated persons.

It was designed and built by architects Liljenberg and Maeser, for $20,000.

It is built of tuff, the pink stone that is used in many other Beaver buildings.

It served as a "center for community and church affairs" and as a theatre for about two decades.

From 1929 to c.1955, it was used for offices and storage by the Utah National Guard.

References

Beaver Opera House, at UtahTheaters.info, lists additional sources: "Chapter 6 Entrance into the Twentieth Century 1900-1920", A History of Beaver County, Martha Sonntag Bradley; "Beaver Opera House Promotors Thought Big", The History Blazer, June 1996, Utah State History CD-ROM; The Weekly Press, 20 November 1914.

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