12pc 1899-1911 Grand Opera House Programs

The historic Grand Opera House in Philadelphia was a prominent 19th-century theater located at Broad Street and Montgomery Avenue, opened in 1888 and designed by architect George Plowman, it was once Philadelphia's fourth-largest theater and home to the National Opera Company, renamed Nixon's Grand Opera House in 1912, it later transitioned into a vaudeville and movie house before closing in 1940, the structure was largely demolished and the site eventually became a parking lot and commercial space