Place 37 of 46Missouri, USA
Stifel Theatre
The history
1400 Market Street, 1934 — the opera house half of the Kiel Auditorium complex, built with New Deal money as the Municipal Auditorium. Art Deco limestone outside, a 3,100-seat auditorium inside with its original plasterwork. It went dark in 1991 when the arena half was torn down for the hockey rink, sat empty for twenty years, and reopened in 2011 after a $78 million restoration.
In brief
The Stifel Theatre (originally known as the Municipal Opera House and formerly the Kiel Opera House and Peabody Opera House) is a civic performing arts building located in St. Louis, Missouri.
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