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elegant front 011 the former, and is considered one of the finest buildings ol the sort in the United States.
The interior is arranged and supplied with all the care and convenience required in a first class Temple of the Muses, the spacious stage and scenic apparatus being particularly appreciated and noted by artists and visitors.
Opera Honse.
DAVID B1DWELL.
The subject of this sketch, whose name is familiar “ from Maine to California,” was born in June, 1821, in the town of Stuvvesant, on the Hudson river, in the State of New York.