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Next few decades it served variously as aflorist shop, antique store, apartments, and a bowling alley. Gradually itbegan deteriorating and accumulating waste, including a large amount of pigeondroppings in the auditorium.In 1971 a group oflocal citizens, including Dixie Kilham, owner of the Hilltop House hotel inHarpers Ferry, arranged to clean out the inside of the building. In 1973 theOld Opera House Theatre Company was formed with the intention of acquiring,restoring, and reopening the theater for performances. The Todd family, whichowned both the theater and an adjacent building constructed in the 1890s,agreed to donate both structures to the group. The next several years werespent fundraising and doing restoration work. The theater ceiling was re-plastered,a new floor and new seats were installed. The second building meanwhile wasconverted into space for a theater workshop, offices, and a rehearsal area. In 1978the New Opera House, renamed the Old Opera House, was added to the NationalRegister of Historic Places. The opera housereopened to the public in October 1976 with a production of My Fair Lady. Today the theatre companyhosts six plays, a one-act play festival, a ballet, and a summer youth theatrecamp at the opera house. In 2008 the Old Opera House Arts Centre wasestablished to offer lessons in acting, dance, and voice to people of all ages.The lower level of the building is now also home to the Jean Heiler Gallery,showcasing the work of local artists. The opera house also operates a thriftstore on North Charles Street as a fundraising initiative. “A Brief History.” The Old Opera HouseTheatre Company. Accessed October 8, 2018. Harding, James E. “New Opera HouseTheatre.” National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form. May 16, 1978.Accessed October 8, 2018. Roe, Ken. “Old Opera House.” Cinema Treasures.Accessed October 8, 2018.

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The Old Opera House is a historic performing arts center in Charles Town. It opened in 1911 under the direction of Annie Packette, a prominent local who sought to bring more culture to the community. The opera house hosted a number of plays, vaudeville shows, minstrels, sporting events, and film screenings before closing in 1948. In 1973 the building was donated to the newly-formed Old Opera House Theatre Company which worked to restore and refurbish the old theatre. It reopened to the public in 1976 and today hosts a variety of plays along with an art gallery and acting, dance, and singing lessons. The Old Opera House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The Old Opera House opened in 1911 and closed in 1948. Thanks to preservationists and local residents, the theater once again offers a space for live performances. In the early 1900sAnnie G. Packette, a noted local and descendant of the Washington family,sought to increase the role of the performing arts in the Charles Towncommunity. In 1910 she spearheaded an effort to raise $50,000 for building anopera house on North George Street. Washington D. C. architect Thomas A.Mullett was commissioned to design the structure. The New Opera House, as itwas originally called, was given a simple design, with seating for at least500, an orchestra pit, and a curved balcony. The house had its grand opening onFebruary 14, 1911 with a performance of the comedy play Bachelor Girls’Federation of Clubs, featuring local actors. Proceeds from the show went to thelocal United Daughters of the Confederacy branch to care for Confederateveterans. The New Opera Houseoriginally hosted theatrical performances but also included vaudeville,minstrels, readings, circuses, and even basketball games and boxing matches.Occasionally it held church services and election returns, and at one point itstored supplies for disaster relief. The first films began to be screened in1915. By the 1930s, with the introduction of the “talkies,” the opera house wasserving primarily as a movie theater. Business declined as movies overtook liveentertainment, and in 1948 the opera house closed. The building was convertedinto commercial space and for the

The Maddock Opera House Association Welcomes YouWe exist to enrich the Maddock community through outreach, restoration, historical preservation, entertainment, and the arts.The Harriman Building, constructed in 1905, is located on Main Street in Maddock, ND. It was originally a mercantile store owned and operated by L.W. Harriman. The 2nd floor was known as the Maddock Opera House. Plans for renovation of the Harriman Building began in 2009, when a group of citizens united to visualize a dream of renovating the 105-year-old building. Visions became actions when renovation started in the fall of 2009 and culminated in a Grand Opening and the Building Dedication in July 2017. The Harriman Building in Maddock ND. The best gathering place on the Prairie!Click below to watch video Upcoming EventsMore information coming soon ABOUTFind out about our organization, mission, our methods, and the results of our decades of advocacy. Equal Opportunity ProviderLEARN MORETAKE ACTIONReady to take the next step? You can become a contributor to our cause, or participate yourself.FIND OUT HOW MADDOCK OPERA HOUSE ASSOCIATION114 Central AvenueMaddock, ND 58348 Rentals: Roberta Jacobson (360) 460-7394Harriman's Restaurant / Bobcat Bar: (701) 438-2723Harriman's Coffee House : (701) 438-2776Maddock Community Library: (701) 438-2235

Arup’s deputy chair, Tristram Carfrae, looks back at the enormous feat of architecture and engineering achieved at the Sydney Opera House half a century ago.The Sydney Opera House is a glorious building, resulting from the sublime integration of architecture, engineering and construction, and its design continues to be influential today.Jørn Utzon, a Danish architect, won an international design competition in 1957 with a radical proposal. The proposal was for a building that put the two main performance spaces – the opera theatre and the concert hall – side by side on Bennelong point, a promontory poking out into Sydney Harbour on the east side of Circular Quay, opposite the Harbour Bridge to the west. Utzon’s daring design idea was based on glistening white sculptural sails flying above a massive podium.Jørn Utzon, Ove Arup and Povl Ahm (in background) discuss the Sydney Opera House roof structure in Hellebæk. Photo: Yuzo MikamiUtzon meets ArupThe central engineering question was how to construct these beautiful forms. Ove Arup, a Danish engineer with a practice in London immediately volunteered to help Utzon to solve this challenge. Together they designed probably the most famous building in the world, one that is instantly recognisable as Sydney, or even Australia.The sails were originally conceived as free form shapes but were subsequently rationalised by Utzon, working closely with his engineers, into pieces cut from a single sphere. Arup’s lead structural engineer, Jack Zunz, developed a pre-cast concrete sail structure that integrated perfectly with Utzon’s spherical geometry and allowed each sail to be constructed from repetitive pieces of concrete ribs, a bit like orange segments, cast on-site and stressed together using steel tendons.The Sydney Opera House sails under constructionInnovating constructionThis construction idea was further developed by the creative and imaginative approach of the builder Hornibrook, who effectively set up a factory on Bennelong point consisting of a casting yard to the south and an assembly process to the north where two rail-mounted cranes, one for each hall, slowly moved seawards leaving the constructed sails behind them. The Sydney Opera House foundationsThis was a very early example of what we would