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Mitchell Opera House
Mitchell Opera House, also known as Mitchell City Hall, is a historic theater building located at Mitchell, Indiana, Mitchell, Lawrence County, Indiana. It was built in 1905–1906, and is a two-story, brick building measuring 45 feet wide and 85 feet deep. It has a one-story projecting entry, gable roof, and gambrel roof over the stage area at the rear of the building. It housed a theater until 1927, then served as Seat of local government, city hall between 1952 and 1979. ''Note:'' This includes and Accompanying photographs. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. References Theatres on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Theatres completed in 1906 Buildings and structures in Lawrence County, Indiana National Register of Historic Places in Lawrence County, Indiana Opera houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Opera houses in Indiana 1906 establishments in Indiana {{LawrenceCountyIN-NRHP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitchell, Indiana
Mitchell is a city in Marion Township, Lawrence County, Indiana, United States. The population was 4,350 at the 2010 census. History Mitchell was built as a railroad town in the mid-19th century. At this location in Lawrence County, the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railroad, better known by the shorter name of "the Monon", was built as a north-south line from New Albany to Chicago, passing through the area which became Mitchell in 1853. In 1857, the east-west Ohio and Mississippi Railway (later part of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad) was completed, as part of a link between Cincinnati and St. Louis. At the intersection of the two rail lines, a new town was planned. As the O&M railroad was surveyed, the owners of the land arranged for one of the surveyors, Ormsby McKnight Mitchel (1810–1862), a West Point graduate and professor at the University of Cincinnati, to plat their new town in exchange for naming it for him. (The second "L" in Mitchell was added later.) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
