Pospeshil Theatre

The Pospeshil Theatre in Bloomfield, Nebraska was built in 1906. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, and was delisted in 2019.[1]

Pospeshil Theatre
The theater in 1987
Location123 Broadway, Bloomfield, Nebraska
Coordinates42.598056°N 97.645556°W / 42.598056; -97.645556
Arealess than one acre
Built1906
Architectural styleTwo-part commercial block
MPSOpera House Buildings in Nebraska 1867-1917 MPS
NRHP reference No.88000935[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPSeptember 28, 1988
Removed from NRHPMarch 25, 2019

It was a two-part commercial block building that was located at the northwest corner of Grant St. and S. Broadway. The building was 114 by 50 feet (35 m × 15 m) in plan. It was "utilitarian in appearance" except for having "red brick arches over its windows and red brick ridges along the top of the building."[2]

The building was deemed significant in the area of social history and performing arts history of Nebraska.[2]

It was identified as one of 25 Nebraska historic opera house buildings worthy of intensive study in a 1988 review.[3]

The building burned down; Bloomfield's public library was built in 2000 on the former site.[4]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. D. Layne Ehlers (April 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Pospeshil Theatre / NeHBS #KX02-8; OHBiN #05-30". National Park Service. Retrieved April 5, 2017. With six photos from 1988 or before.
  3. D. Layne Ehlers (April 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation: Opera House Buildings in Nebraska 1867-1917 MPS". National Park Service.
  4. Koertje, Norma. "Bloomfield Public Library". Nebraska Library Quarterly. 2000-06-25. Archived 2008-11-21 from original. Retrieved 2010-02-19.


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