Newark Opera House | |
Location: | 95 E. Main St., Newark, Delaware |
Coordinates: | 39.6831°N -75.7497°W |
Built: | 1885 |
Architecture: | Second Empire |
Added: | May 7, 1982 |
Refnum: | 82002345 |
Newark Opera House is a historic commercial building and opera house located at Newark in New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1885 and is a four-story rectangular building with six bays at the north front facade. The fourth story was added in 1907. It features a mansard roof covered with patterned slate shingles in the Second Empire style. Between about 1885 and 1925 it was the site of live theater and music, in addition to movies.[1]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.