On the front of the building was an open gallery over the sidewalk, where theatergoers would congregate during intermissions. A ticket office and businesses occupied the ground floor a wide staircase led to the theater on the second floor. Austin State University and the author of a fine book about early Nacogdoches, says that the two-story structure was built to induce theatrical companies to stop over between engagements in Shreveport and Houston. The locals, after all, built a downtown opera house in 1889. NACOGDOCHES - The oldest town in Texas has always been a culturally sophisticated place, as best I can tell, anyway. Then an opera house, it's now an art gallery. Show More Show Less 2 of2 The Marx Brothers might never have been the Marx Brothers had a Nacogdoches mule not upstaged them during their appearance in this building on Main Street in Nacogdoches. 1 of2 The Marx Brothers might never have been the Marx Brothers had a Nacogdoches mule not upstaged them during their appearance in this building on Main Street in Nacogdoches.
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