Dock Street Theatre
type: Item
description: theatre building inCharleston
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Burnt down date: 1740-01-01T00:00:00Z
opening date: 1736-01-01T00:00:00Z
closure date: 1740-01-01T00:00:00Z
Country: USA
City: Charleston
Wikidata source: Q5287199
Carthalia ID: 4857
Note: Built 1809 as Planter's Hotel (on the site of the first building in the Thirteen Colonies designed for use as a theatre; opened 12 Feb 1736; site of the first opera performance in America; probably destroyed by fire in 1740). 1935 converted into a theatre. 2007-2010 major restorations.