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E. E. Warren Opera House

E E Warren Opera House, located in Greenfield, lowa, was built in 1896 by Ed and Eva Warren to house a department store and opera house with living quarters on the second floor. The stage of the opera house has been quiet for 60 years, but the current owner, Main Street Greenfield, is hoping to return the E. E. Warren Opera House to its original splendor.

The Warren Opera House Block is a 2½-story brick structure originally owned by E.E. Warren. It is located on the corner of two adjacent buildings and features a corner turret. It housed Warren’s dry goods store and a theatre. The adjacent commercial block was originally owned by John J. Heatherington, and is similar in style to the Opera House block. Both buildings feature facades with a tripartite arrangement and center frontispieces that project slightly forward, a broad rock-faced belt course that runs above the second floor windows, a narrow metal cornice, and a brick parapet with finials. The Opera House’s parapet has a triangular pediment with “Opera House” on a rectangular base, and the Hetherington Block has a similar feature in a simplified form. The buildings were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. In 2014 they were included as a contributing property in the Greenfield Public Square Historic District.

1999

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Image Size: 10-3/4 x 10-9/16 inches. Paper Size: 12-3/4 x 12-9/16 inches.