Metropolitan Theatre

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The Plymouth Opera House opened in 1906 on the second floor of this three-story high building. From descriptions, the middle door took you to the opera house and to the third level. The doors on the left and right took you do the businesses.

By the 1920s, those businesses were a billiards parlor/barber shop on one side and the Metropolitan Theatre on the other. The Metropolitan had converted to sound but on January 26, 1935, fire destroyed the building in a spectacular blaze erasing the opera house, the billiards parlor the barber, and the theater.

The good news is that despite the lack of insurance by the Monk Brothers on the building, the billiards parlor, barber shop and the new-build Metropolitan Theatre would all find new homes on the Plymouth Square.