Marker Inscription
At this site in 1891, a group of businessmen built a three-story structure to replace the small Corsicana Opera House above city hall. The Merchants Opera House had stores and offices on the first two floors and a balconied auditorium on the top story. Opulently decorated in the style of the day, the theater seated up to 1000. Plays, minstrel shows, and musical concerts, featuring well-known performers, entertained audiences here. The building was sold, but burned in 1914 before it could be converted into a motion picture theater as planned.
About this site
Merchants Opera House is a historical marker in Corsicana, Navarro County, dedicated in 1974. It is one of 128 historical markers documented in Navarro County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 218 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 32.0953, -96.4632 near Corsicana. The nearest cataloged historic site is Molloy Hotel (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Damon, Henry G., Natural Gas Pipelines, and Corsicana Newspapers.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5349007229. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
