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Rapides Opera House

former movie theater in Alexandria, Louisiana, United States

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ7294253 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rapides Opera House was located in Alexandria, Louisiana. It was a Romanesque building designed by Favrot & Livaudais and built in 1903. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 11, 1981. It was demolished in 1985 and delisted on December 28, 2015.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Rapides Opera House” is former movie theater in Alexandria, Louisiana, United States. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Rapides, Opera and House, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1903, 1981, 1985, 2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Rapides, Opera and House is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “former movie theater in Alexandria, Louisiana, United States” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7294253. The first chronological checks are 1903, 1981, 1985 and 2015.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Rapides Opera House”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Rapides Opera House primary sources, Rapides Opera House archive and Rapides research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Rapides Opera House”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Rapides Opera House” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.