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Title
John Lane Buell's opera house, located in Quinnesec, Michigan
Institution
Dickinson County Library

Subject
Cities and towns -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula

Subject
Theaters

Item Number
AF01a043

Relation
Item also published with caption in: Dickinson County, Michigan : from earliest times through the Twenties / compiled and edited by William John Cummings. Iron Mountain, Mich. : Dickinson County Board of Commissioners, 1991. 432 p. : ill, maps, ports. ; 3

Description
Photograph of what was considered one of the finest opera houses in the Upper Peninsula, the Buell opera house opened on December 30, 1879. The second story contained a large dance floor and auditorium with a stage. The opera house burned August 23, 1925.

John Lane Buell

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