Central City Opera House (Central City, Colo.)
Biography
__ __ __Work cat.: The glory that was gold, 1992: t.p. (Central City Opera House) p. vii (built in 1878 in Central City, Colo.)
Biography
Central City Opera House is given to the University of Denver by the McFarlane family in 1932 (Ida Kruse McFarlane, Professor of English at DU, good friends with Anne Evans). The CCOHA was administered as a non-profit corporation during this time.
Sources
Breck, From the Rockies to the World, 1997, 126.
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Central City Opera House, 1964
A man conducts in the background and two children sit in the foreground.
Central City Opera House, 1964
Two people with masks can be seen in Central City, Colorado.
Central City Opera House, 1964
A man sits conducting in Central City, Colorado.
Central City Opera House, 1964
A man playing a clarinet in the middle of a room surrounded by people can be seen in Central City, Colorado.
Charlie H. Johnson for Colorado Reflections
Charlie H. Johnson, historian and author, describes the history of the Central City Opera House. Built in 1878, the Central City Opera House was funded by the community and provided a place for entertainment for miners, pioneers, homesteading families, businessmen, and citizens of Central City. Johnson relays the history of the building and the key people involved with the origination, restoration, and preservation of the opera house.
Eleanore Weckbaugh Papers
Collection contains papers, framed and loose photographs, clippings, publications, scrapbooks, correspondence, mementos, and other papers and materials related and/or belonging to Eleanor Weckbaugh (1905-1977), and/or the Central City Opera.
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