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- Place Types Museum
- Address 123 S Main St, Palestine, IL 62451, USA
- Coordinate 39.0019326,-87.6129965
- Website Unknown
- Rating 4.6
- Compound Code 292P+QR Palestine, IL, USA
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I have been there touring this beautiful opera house. By the way I am a descendant of David Fife. My great grandfmother was his sister.
This place is huge and perfect for any kinda party! Renting was simple. Terms were simple! And loved the way the party turned out.
We attended the Star Wars themed Tiny Tea Party. The new seating arrangement was a vast improvement. We enjoyed our afternoon there. We could tell the committee responsible for the party had worked very hard to assure the attendees had a good time. Very nice!
Construction at the David Fife Opera House started in 1898 and finished in 1901. In the building David Fife operated a hardware store on the ground floor. Upon completion the opera house seated several hundred in a building that measured 55 X 70 feet. The raked floor was filled with upholstered, red leather theater seats. Audiences were cooled by electric fans in summer and heat provided by a coal furnace kept them warm in cooler weather. The two original ceiling fixtures included a mirrored collar which reflected the glow of the high wattage light bulbs. At the west end of the building is the stage with a 25-foot long opening and 15-foot high, the stage is encircled by 25 lights.nnA handpainted rolled canvas fire curtain was hand painted by artists from Sosman and Landes, a Chicago company. The curtain art shows a Venetian canal scene. Side and top panels along the stage depict draperies surrounding a tree-lined river. Recently, other painted scenes showing gardens, waterfalls and a turn of the century scene have been discovered in the building. Fife's mother demanded that one of the building's five interior art panels, the one that featured cheruns, be painted over to cover their nakedness.nnIt is said the lights all over Palestine dimmed when Fife threw the switches to the lights at the opera house on opening night.
Such a wonderfully restored and maintained historical venue for all sorts of events.
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