| The Grace Brothers Block, encompassing the Two-Hour Cleaners, Town and Country, the shoe store, and part of the V & S Variety Store, still holds the remains of the Eagle Opera House. The entrance to the opera house was on the west side of the building and is still discernible.
"Sometimes Lewis just walked up and down Main Street and stared at the high, elaborate false fronts of the stores. One of the stores had an abandoned opera house in its upper stories. Jonathan said that the old scenery was still up there, leaning against cases of Mounds bars and 5-cent writing tablets." [The House with a Clock in Its Walls]
"Curtained arches opened on either side [of the stage], with knee-high railings. The walls were a faded pink, with intricate designs in yellow and red framing the stage. In an oval to the left was the laughing mask of comedy, and to the right of the stage the grieving mask of tragedy, both done in faded gold. Overhead 'a horseshoe-shaped balcony.'" [The Doom of the Haunted Opera]
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