The Onawa IOOF Opera House, also known as the Onawa Opera House, is a historic

opera house An opera house is a theatre building used for performances of opera. It usually includes a stage, an orchestra pit, audience seating, and backstage facilities for costumes and building sets. While some venues are constructed specifically for o ...

located in Onawa,

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. It was completed in November, 1900, only to be heavily damaged in a fire a month later, on December 24, 1900. with It has been deemed historically significant as the building most strongly associated Onawa's "strong tradition of live-stage entertainment" from the late 1880s to the mid-1920s, involving three structures. It was listed on the

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in 1990.

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Buildings and structures in Monona County, Iowa Odd Fellows buildings in Iowa Theatres completed in 1900 Romanesque Revival architecture in Iowa Onawa, Iowa National Register of Historic Places in Monona County, Iowa Opera houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa {{MononaCountyIA-NRHP-stub