The Cotaco Opera House

The Cotaco Opera House

Theater; Decatur, AL; Morgan County, AL

Located at 115 Johnston Street in historic downtown Decatur, the Cotaco Opera House was the first opera house in the state of Alabama. In 1889 there was no facility in the city for a theater or public meeting hall. On September 16, 1889, the Cotaco Opera House Company was incorporated. Completed in 1890, the opera house was the social center of the community. Films and musicals could be seen at the opera house. The Rising Sun Masonic Lodge purchased the building in the 1920s and converted it into a meeting hall. The Cotaco Opera House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Dylan Tucker, University of North Alabama

"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. Accessed June 1, 2015.

Alabama Cultural Resource Survey

1890s

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