Woodsville Opera House
65 Central Street,
Woodsville,
NH
03785
65 Central Street,
Woodsville,
NH
03785
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My son Nate Swain recently found several movie announcement posters from the Tegu’s Orpheum Theatre. They were under the linoleum in the third floor apartment at the former Palace Theatre building (now Room 111 at Victory Lanes). Some titles are: Sky Giant, Little Miss Broadway, Hold That Kiss, and Painted Desert. Really good condition.
ken: That’s the Orpheum Theatre.
Yeah, nice that they saved the curtain and chandelier. Too bad they couldn’t have left it where it was and restored the Opera House!
This postcard shows a theater on Central Street, but the theater is part of the Hotel Henderson.
http://tinyurl.com/6mg7aj
The caption of the photo link posted above by Neal G says that the Opera Block was constructed in 1890. There is a theatre listed under Woodsville NH in the 1897-98 edition of the Julius Cahn Official Theatrical Guide. However, it’s not the Opera House, but the “Music Hall”. I don’t know if they are one in the same. According to the Guide, the Music Hall had 600 seats, and was on the second floor of its building. The proscenium opening was 21 feet wide x 18 feet high, and the stage was 22 feet deep. Quincy Scott was the Mgr. Local hotels were the Wentworth, Johnson and Parker House. The population of Woodsville was given as 1,300.
This page has a photo of the Opera House as well:
http://www.cohase.org/Frames/Heritage.htm
The original chandelier is now in Alumni Hall in Haverhill, NH.
See attached photo:
http://www.town.haverhill.nh.us/alumihallarts.html
Modern photo:
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