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Coates Opera House
Monday, April 17, 1882
The Decorative Arts
Newspaper report
The Atchison Globe, (Atchison, KS) April 18, 1882, 1
Newspaper Item
The Wyandott Herald, (Kansas City) April 20, 1882, 3
Coates Opera House
NW corner of 10th Street and Broadway, Kansas City, MO
Built: January 1869 (Kersey Coates 1823—1887)
Dedicated: October 6, 1870
Opened: September 1871
Seating capacity: 1800
Destroyed (fire): 1901
Replaced by: a warehouse of the Rothenburg and Schloss tobacco firm (1910)
Coates House Hotel
SE corner of 10th Street and Broadway, Kansas City, MO
Built: 1871
Demolished: during the rebuilding of the New Coates House Hotel 1886-90
Kansas City Star, April 15, 1882, 4