The Opera House and Yates Bookshop Building in Lexington, Kentucky, are adjacent buildings listed together on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, and they are contributing resources in the North Broadway-Short Street Historic District. The 3-story

Lexington Opera House The Lexington Opera House is a theatre located at 401 West Short Street in downtown Lexington, Kentucky. Built in 1886, the Opera House replaced the former theatre, located on the corner of Main and Broadway, after fire destroyed it in January 1 ...

was designed by

Oscar Cobb Oscar Cobb was an American architect of theaters and more. Several of his works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Works Works (with variations in attribution) include: * DuPont-Whitehouse House, built in 1875 and 1876 by ...

and constructed by

Herman L. Rowe Herman L. Rowe (born Rau; 1839 – 9 January 1913) was a German-American architect active in Lexington, Kentucky. He immigrated to the United States as a child from Germany. A couple of his works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Histori ...

in 1886 after a fire earlier that year destroyed Lexington's previous opera house. The Opera House has been described either as

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

or Queen Anne in its facade. Above the third floor, the facade features a prominent sheet iron relief decoration with the appearance of cut stone. With The 3-story Yates Bookshop Building was constructed about two years after an 1873 fire destroyed the Broadway Hotel. The Italianate building was part of a row of buildings completed after the fire, one of only a few of the buildings to survive

urban renewal Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom and urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment often used to address urban decay in cities. Urban renewal involves the clearing out of blighte ...

in the 20th century.

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* John Dean Wright, ''Lexington: Heart of the Bluegrass'' (University Press of Kentucky, 1982) National Register of Historic Places in Lexington, Kentucky Gothic Revival architecture in Kentucky Italianate architecture in Kentucky Commercial buildings completed in 1875 Theatres completed in 1886 Opera houses on the National Register of Historic Places 1875 establishments in Kentucky 1886 establishments in Kentucky Opera houses in Kentucky Theatres on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky Independent bookstores of the United States {{FayetteCountyKY-NRHP-stub

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