Grand Opera House
Sunday, March 5, 1882
The Decorative Arts
Newspaper report
(Nunnemacher) Grand Opera House
Built: 1870-71 (Henry C. Koch, Architect, for Jacob Nunnemacher)
Opened: August 17, 1871
Seating: 1,000 (originally)
Renamed: 1890 (Das Neue Deutsche Stadt-Theatre—The New German Stadt Theater)
Destroyed (fire): January 15, 1895 [1]
Replaced: 1895 (The Pabst Theatre, Otto Strack, Architect; building extant)
[1] The University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries web site erroneously gives the date of the fire as 1893
Grand Opera House and City Hall (right), Milwaukee, WI
Source: Milwaukee Public Library
Plankinton House Hotel
Built: 1867
Opened: 1868
Extended: 1876-1880
Last additions: 1882
Fire: 1883, survived
Demolished: 1915
Replaced: 1916 by Plankinton Arcade (Holabird & Roche), a two-story commercial building
Extended: 1924 to seven floors (Holabird & Roche) extant as part of the The Shops of Grand Avenue, and retaining the statue of John Plankinton in the center of the circular atrium
The Plankinton House Hotel extended, as it looked at the time of Wilde's stay in Milwaukee.
The original Plankinton House Hotel in Milwaukee.
