Myers Theater

Added to the National Register of Historical Places in 1978

Myers Opera House (added 1978 - Building - #77001583)
Also known as Myers Theatre
118 E. Milwaukee St., Janesville
Historic Significance: Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer: Cobb,Oscar
Architectural Style: No Style Listed
Area of Significance: Architecture, Performing Arts
Period of Significance: 1850-1874, 1875-1899, 1900-1924
Owner: Private
Historic Function: Recreation And Culture
Historic Sub-function: Theater
Current Function: Commerce/Trade, Social
Current Sub-function: Civic

Here is a February 1924 article from the Janesville Daily Gazette:

YEGGS FOILED AGAIN AT THEATER

Theater robbers lost out again Sunday night in their second attempt in two weeks in Janesville, when the box office of the Myers theater was entered between 5:15 and 6 p.m. and a flash-light stolen. Had it not been for precautions taken by the ticket seller, Ray Cullen, the intruders might have been $200 to $300 to the good, but Cullen took the money with him when he went to lunch. Entrance was gained through a rear exit and the door into the box office was broken open. Two weeks ago, yeggmen cracked the safe at the Beverly theater but got nothing, as the week-end receipts had been deposited in another safe.

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An item about the Myers Theatre in Boxoffice, November 2, 1957, said that the original Myers Opera House of 1870 had burned in 1889, two years after a complete remodeling, and the theater standing in 1957 was the replacement that had been built in 1889.

This book at Google Books has a 1908 obituary of the architect of the Myers Theatre, Oscar Cobb (put his name in the search box on the left side of the page and click Go.) It says that he designed about 200 theaters, and gives the names of a dozen or so.