Morgan Opera House [Canonsburg]
Morgan Opera House
theatre in Canonsburg
2 E. Pike Street & N. Central Avenue, Canonsburg, PA 15317
Built 1891 as a commercial building with a third-floor theatre. Ca. 500 seats. 1902 rebuilding and auditorium extension by a balcony on the fourth floor (total capacity: 884 seats). Site of a disastrous panic after a false shout of fire on 26 Aug 1911, leading to 26 deaths. Subsequently closed and converted into apartments.