Brown Grand Opera House 310 West Sixth Concordia Placed on the National Register of Historic Places 7-26-73

Kansas City theater architect, Carl Boller, drew blueprints for the French Renaissance style 650-seat theater. It was completed at a cost of  $40,000 in 1907. It has two balconies, eight box seats, and features a grand drape, a reproduction of a Horace Vernet painting titled, "Napoleon at Austerlitz." The Brown Grand closed in 1974 but was reopened in 1980 after six years of renovation and at a cost of $500,000.

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