AndĪn opera house provided a sense of urbanity and many small communities used them as an enticement for the railroad companies to establish a stop in their villages. They thought it would make their town more cosmopolitan, and believed an opera house as important as a church or a jail, according to the Camden City Hall and Opera House National Register of Historic Places nomination. Politicians in smaller towns wanted one, too. In the prosperous years after the Civil War, most big cities had opera houses. Puritanical New England went further, banning theater in Massachusetts until 1790, and in Connecticut from 1800 to 1952 – at least technically.
Calling it “ unpatriotic and unacceptable“, Congress banned theater in 1774.
Many early Americans thought the theater disreputable. The first of the American opera houses is believed to be in Williamsburg, Va., and dates to 1722.
Opera houses didn’t become a feature of American cities and towns until after the Civil War, though they existed before the American Revolution.
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