http://debianws.lexgopc.com/wiki143/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Coates_Opera_House 2026-05-14T14:03:45Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.1 http://debianws.lexgopc.com/wiki143/index.php?title=Coates_Opera_House&diff=7091525&oldid=prev 2024-11-20T19:03:00Z

<p>Moving <a href="/wiki143/index.php?title=Category:Buildings_and_structures_destroyed_in_1901&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:Buildings and structures destroyed in 1901 (page does not exist)">Category:Buildings and structures destroyed in 1901</a> to <a href="/wiki143/index.php?title=Category:Buildings_and_structures_demolished_in_1901&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:Buildings and structures demolished in 1901 (page does not exist)">Category:Buildings and structures demolished in 1901</a> per <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categories_for_discussion/Log/2024_November_7#Category:Buildings_and_structures_by_decade_of_destruction" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 November 7">Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 November 7#Category:Buildings and structures by decade of destruction</a></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[File:Coates Opera House.jpg|thumb|Exterior view of Coates Opera House]]<br /> The &#039;&#039;&#039;Coates Opera House&#039;&#039;&#039; was a prominent performing arts venue and cultural landmark in [[Kansas City, Missouri]]&lt;ref&gt;Snell and Kelley, pg. 17, citing Albrecht, pgs. 2-6&lt;/ref&gt; from its founding in 1870 to its destruction in a fire in 1901.&lt;ref&gt;[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B04EFDC143FE433A25752C0A9649C946097D6CF New York Times: KANSAS CITY THEATRE BURNED.; Coates Opera House a Complete Loss -- &quot;L&#039;Aiglon&quot; Was Booked for Monday.]&lt;/ref&gt; It was built by [[Kersey Coates]], a local hotelier. The House was the first legitimate theater in Kansas City.&lt;ref&gt;[http://kclibrary.org/localhistory/exhibits/theaters/coates.htm Bygone Theaters: Coates Opera House] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051119030153/http://www.kclibrary.org/localhistory/exhibits/theaters/coates.htm |date=2005-11-19 }}&lt;/ref&gt; It was located on the northwest corner of 10th and Broadway.<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;Heart and Sword&#039;&#039;, starring [[Walker Whiteside]] and Leilia Wolstan was the last performance in the theatre.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web|title=Last Night at the Opera|url=http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/week-kansas-city-history/last-night-opera-house|publisher=Kansas City Public Library|accessdate=19 July 2014}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Playwright and actor [[John A. Stevens]] managed the opera house for the 1871–72 and 1872–73 seasons (its second and third seasons).<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> <br /> * {{cite book|title=Bugle Resounding: Music and Musicians of the Civil War Era|author=National Conference on Music of the Civil War Era|editor=Mark A. Snell |editor2=Bruce C. Kelley|year=2004|publisher=University of Missouri Press|isbn=0-8262-1538-6}}<br /> * {{cite journal|title=Music in Kansas City Before the Civil War|journal=Mid-West Notebook|volume=1|issue=1|date=May 1992|first=Theodore|last=Albrecht}}<br /> <br /> {{coord|39.102723|-94.588591|display=title}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Theatres in Kansas City, Missouri]]<br /> [[Category:Former theatres in the United States]]<br /> [[Category:Music venues completed in 1870]]<br /> [[Category:Buildings and structures demolished in 1901]]<br /> [[Category:Burned buildings and structures in the United States]]<br /> [[Category:1870 establishments in Missouri]]<br /> [[Category:Burned theatres]]<br /> [[Category:1901 disestablishments in Missouri]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{US-theat-struct-stub}}</div>

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