Pospeshil Theatre

Coordinates: 42°35′53″N 97°38′44″W / 42.598056°N 97.645556°W / 42.598056; -97.645556
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Pospeshil Theatre
Photo of a boxy brick building
The theater in 1987
Location123 Broadway, Bloomfield, Nebraska
Coordinates42°35′53″N 97°38′44″W / 42.598056°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

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]

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[edit]

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ a b 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.