Colorado History
The
Central City Opera House:
A 100 Year History
With an Introduction by
Miss Lillian Gish
This is the story of Central City, Colorado’s world famous Opera House. It starts with the founding of Central City in the 1859 Gold Rush, through its early stirrings of pioneer theatre leading to the idea of building an Opera House, and its actual construction in 1978. After the Opera House opened, productions and community use flourished for several years, but diminished as mining declined and the turn of the century neared. In the 1900s, in the hopes of profitable operations, silent films were shown. By the early 30s, however, time was running out. The old Opera House was deteriorating badly and faced conversion into an auto shop. A miracle happened in 1932 which saved the Opera House and resurrected it into the main attraction of the Central City Opera Festival that has become an American musical tradition. This is the story of that miracle.
Click here to buy The Central City Opera House:
A 100 Year History.
Central City Opera House:
A 100 Year History
With an Introduction by
Miss Lillian Gish
This is the story of Central City, Colorado’s world famous Opera House. It starts with the founding of Central City in the 1859 Gold Rush, through its early stirrings of pioneer theatre leading to the idea of building an Opera House, and its actual construction in 1978. After the Opera House opened, productions and community use flourished for several years, but diminished as mining declined and the turn of the century neared. In the 1900s, in the hopes of profitable operations, silent films were shown. By the early 30s, however, time was running out. The old Opera House was deteriorating badly and faced conversion into an auto shop. A miracle happened in 1932 which saved the Opera House and resurrected it into the main attraction of the Central City Opera Festival that has become an American musical tradition. This is the story of that miracle.
Click here to buy The Central City Opera House:
A 100 Year History.
The Daniels & Fisher Tower:
A Presence of the Past
This is the history of the owners and founding of the Daniels & Fisher Department store in Denver, Colorado in the mid-19th century, the conception and building of the landmark Daniels & Fisher Tower building in 1909-1911, the story of the important role that the Tower Building played in Denver history 1910 through the late 1960s, the decline of the Tower building after the closing of the store, and the Tower building’s deterioration in condition and endangerment of destruction into the late 1970s.
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A Presence of the Past.
A Presence of the Past
This is the history of the owners and founding of the Daniels & Fisher Department store in Denver, Colorado in the mid-19th century, the conception and building of the landmark Daniels & Fisher Tower building in 1909-1911, the story of the important role that the Tower Building played in Denver history 1910 through the late 1960s, the decline of the Tower building after the closing of the store, and the Tower building’s deterioration in condition and endangerment of destruction into the late 1970s.
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A Presence of the Past.
H.A.W. Tabor and His
Leadville Opera House
This is the story of one of Colorado’s first patrons of the arts, Horace Austin Warner Tabor, the Opera House that he built in Leadville, Colorado, and the events that ultimately brought Tabor to financial ruin but led to the preservation of his famous Opera House—one of Colorado’s archetypal legends. The Opera House stands today as the sole survivor into the 21st century of a historic building carrying Tabor’s famous name. It is a landmark theater, which the author describes as, “nothing so much as…a graceful ring, of which the stage itself was the jewel-like setting.”
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Leadville Opera House.
Books by.... Charlie H. Johnson, Jr.
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Some Historical Background to the
Country School Legacy:
Frontier and Rural Schools in Colorado,1859-1950.
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Some Historical Background to the
Country School Legacy:
Frontier and Rural Schools in Colorado,1859-1950.
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