Lyric Theater, also known as Thespian Hall, is a historic
theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...
in
Boonville,
Cooper County, Missouri
Cooper County is located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 17,103. Its county seat is Boonville. The county was organized December 17, 1818 and named for Sarshell Coop ...
, United States. It was built in 1855–1857, and is a two-story, rectangular
Greek Revival
The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...
–style brick building. The front facade features a portico with four unfluted
Doric Doric may refer to:
* Doric, of or relating to the Dorians of ancient Greece
** Doric Greek, the dialects of the Dorians
* Doric order, a style of ancient Greek architecture
* Doric mode, a synonym of Dorian mode
* Doric dialect (Scotland)
* Doric ...
columns constructed of wedge-shaped brick. The building was enlarged in 1901. When originally constructed, the basement was used as reading room, the main floor was used as combined theater and lecture hall or auditorium, and the second floor housed the city hall, a
Masonic lodge
A Masonic lodge, often termed a private lodge or constituent lodge, is the basic organisational unit of Freemasonry. It is also commonly used as a term for a building in which such a unit meets. Every new lodge must be warranted or chartered ...
, and an
Odd Fellows hall.
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It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1969.
[ It is located in ]Historic District D
Historic District D is a national historic district located at Boonville, Cooper County, Missouri. It encompasses 87 contributing buildings in the central business district of Boonville. The district includes representative examples of Late ...
.
References
Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Missouri
Theatres on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri
Greek Revival architecture in Missouri
Theatres completed in 1857
National Register of Historic Places in Cooper County, Missouri
1857 establishments in Missouri
Boonville, Missouri
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