Maguire Grand Opera House

50 W. Broadway Street,
Butte, MT 59701

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Patsy
Patsy on November 10, 2021 at 6:12 pm

Was this opera house ever called the Butte Opera House?

rsalters (Ron Salters)
rsalters (Ron Salters) on September 11, 2014 at 10:35 am

In the 1897-98 edition of the Julius Cahn Official Theatrical Guide there is a “Murray Opera House” in Butte, John Maguire, Mgr. There are no street addresses in this guide, but I assume it’s this theater. It had 1,200 seats; the proscenium opening was 27 feet wide X 28 feet high, and the stage was 35 feet deep. The theater was on the first floor; there were 7 members of the house orchestra. There were 3 daily newspapers and 4 hotels for show folk. Railroads were the Northern Pacfic and the Union Pacific. The 1897 population of Butte was 35,000.