Coates Opera House

Coates Opera House

The Coates Opera House was a prominent performing arts venue and cultural landmark in Kansas City, Missouri[1] from its founding in 1870 to its destruction in a fire in 1901.[2] It was built by Kersey Coates, a local hotelier. The House was the first legitimate theater in Kansas City.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ Snell and Kelley, pg. 17, citing Albrecht, pgs. 2-6
  2. ^ New York Times: KANSAS CITY THEATRE BURNED.; Coates Opera House a Complete Loss -- "L'Aiglon" Was Booked for Monday.
  3. ^ Bygone Theaters: Coates Opera House
  • National Conference on Music of the Civil War Era (2004). Mark A. Snell, Bruce C. Kelley (Eds.). ed. Bugle Resounding: Music and Musicians of the Civil War Era. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 0826215386. 
  • Albrecht, Theodore (May 1992). "Music in Kansas City Before the Civil War". Mid-West Notebook 1 (1). 


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