Tabor Grand Opera House
The Tabor Grand Opera House, not to be confused with the Tabor Opera House of Leadville, was a Denver opera house and theatre built and subsidized by the silver magnate Horace Tabor and his first wife Augusta Tabor.[1]
Description
Located on Denver's Sixteenth Street, the high street of central-city Denver, the 1881 opera structure was meant to serve as a gathering place for the cream of Colorado's early-statehood society.[2] The building was constructed in the Second Empire style to house and produce grand operas and live theatrical performances.[1]
Horace Tabor's finances were affected by his divorce from Augusta in 1882-83. With the collapse of Tabor's mining interests in the silver crash of 1893, the Grand Opera House went into a decline. Tabor liquidated his interest in the theatre in 1896. Under new management, the performance space evolved from live stage events and became a movie theater. By the early 1960s it had become a grindhouse. The theater building was town down by urban renewal leaders in 1964.[1]
As of 2022 the spot where the Grand Opera House had stood was marked by a historical marker. The marker is sited at N 39°44.833, W 104°59.717.
References
- ^ a b c "Tabor Grand Opera House". coloradoencyclopedia.org. Colorado Encyclopedia. Retrieved August 19, 2022.
- ^ Sprague, Marshall (1976). Colorado: A Bicentennial History. New York City: W. W. Norton & Company. p. 103. ISBN 0-393-05599-X.