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Iowa
Greene's Opera House
Friday, April 28, 1882
The Decorative Arts
Newspaper reports
The Decatur Herald, April 30, 1882, 1
The Cedar Rapids Times (weekly):
April 13, 1882, 3
April 20, 1882, 3
April 27, 1882, 3
May 4, 1882, 3
Greene's Opera House
Second Street, between First and A Avenues (now 113-117 Second Street NE), Cedar Rapids, IA
Built: 1879-80
Opened: December 27, 1880
Named for: George Greene, 1817–1880, justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, railroad entrepreneur
Capacity: c.1600 when built, not all seated
Closed as a theater: December 1921 for use as a movie theater
Converted: 1934 to an indoor parking garage for the Roosevelt Hotel
Condemned: 1968
Demolished: March 1969
No record is currently available as to whether Wilde stayed overnight in Cedar Rapids. If he did, it would most likely have been at the Northwestern Hotel.
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