Newark Opera House
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Newark Opera House is a historic commercial building and opera house
located at Newark
in New Castle County, Delaware
. It was built in 1885 and is a four story rectangular building with six bays at the north front facade. The fourth story was added about 1900. It features a mansard roof
covered with patterned slate
shingles in the Second Empire style. Between about 1885 and 1925 it was the site of live theater and music, in addition to movies.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
in 1982.
Opera house
An opera house is a theatre building used for opera performances that consists of a stage, an orchestra pit, audience seating, and backstage facilities for costumes and set building...
located at Newark
Newark, Delaware
Newark is an American city in New Castle County, Delaware, west-southwest of Wilmington. According to the 2010 Census, the population of the city is 31,454. Newark is the home of the University of Delaware.- History :...
in New Castle County, Delaware
New Castle County, Delaware
New Castle County is the northernmost of the three counties of the U.S. state of Delaware. As of 2010 its population was 538,479, an increase of 7.6% over the previous decade. The county seat is Wilmington. The center of population of Delaware is located in New Castle County, in the town of...
. It was built in 1885 and is a four story rectangular building with six bays at the north front facade. The fourth story was added about 1900. It features a mansard roof
Mansard roof
A mansard or mansard roof is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterized by two slopes on each of its sides with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper that is punctured by dormer windows. The roof creates an additional floor of habitable space, such as a garret...
covered with patterned slate
Slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. The result is a foliated rock in which the foliation may not correspond to the original sedimentary layering...
shingles in the Second Empire style. Between about 1885 and 1925 it was the site of live theater and music, in addition to movies.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1982.