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This old opera house opened in either 1889 or 1900 depending on which source you believe. It hosted plays, vaudeville acts and eventually motion pictures before it closed. It fell into disrepair and was razed in 1945.
Source: Charlotte Zinger Holton
I grew up in Benton Harbor and remember my mother telling of the fire that destroyed the opera house. I was born in 1933 and never saw it because all trace of it was gone by then. But people said it was a grand building. There is a statue and memorial on the bluff near the river in nearby St. Joseph commemorating the opera house and the firemen who fought the fire.