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DeGive's Opera House was the main venue for opera in Atlanta from 1871 until 1893. ==History and location== There are varying accounts of the construction and location of DeGive's Opera House. The Atlanta History Center describes how Belgian consul Laurent DeGive purchased an unfinished building at the corner of Marietta and Forsyth and hired architect and civil engineer Max Corput to design the opera house.〔("DeGive's Opera House", Atlanta History Center )〕 This location, however, was the site of the Kimball opera house, which predated the DeGive Opera House. Reed's ''History of Atlanta'' states that Atlanta's antebellum Masonic Hall was destroyed in a fire in May, 1866. The site stated to be at the corner of Marietta and Broad (not Forsyth), was then purchased, and the firm of Fay & Corput designed the new opera house which was dedicated on February 22, 1871.〔(Wallace Putam Reed, ''History of Atlanta, Georgia: with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers'', p.568 )〕 The opera house was expanded in 1873-4 to accommodate over 2,000 people.〔("Our Opera House", ''Atlanta Sunday Herald'', Sep. 14, 1873, p. 11 )〕 In 1893, DeGive opened the new, larger DeGive's Grand Opera House, which would later become Loew's Grand Theatre, at Peachtree and Forsyth. The original DeGive's Opera House was later occupied by the Columbia Theater and later by the Bijou Theater. The building was demolished in 1921 to make way for the construction of the (Palmer Building ), which is in turn replaced by (41 Marietta St ) by 1976. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「DeGive's Opera House」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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