City Opera House

124 North Market Street,
Frederick, MD 21707

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kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on February 25, 2009 at 10:02 pm

Tere is some information about the building from the current occupant’s site. Click on “history”.
http://www.brewers-alley.com/

rsalters (Ron Salters)
rsalters (Ron Salters) on June 30, 2007 at 12:45 pm

The City Opera House in Frederick is listed in the 1897-98 edition of the Julius Cahn Official Theatrical Guide. P.E. Long was the Mgr. and it had 900 seats (probably rounded up from the 860 listed above). The theatre was on the second floor; the proscenium opening was 25 feet wide X 20 feet high, and the stage was 24 feet deep. There was one daily and 3 weekly newspapers and the hotel for show folk was the Carline House. The 1897 population of Frederick was 10,000.