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Article: OPERA HOUSE NEGLECTED, NOT IN DANGER
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- Sun Publications (IL)
- Article date:
- August 4, 1999
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A recent newspaper article credited the Woodstock Opera House manager as one of those responsible for bringing the opera house back from the "brink of destruction." Other reports say several decades ago there was a threat the opera house would be razed and turned into a parking lot.
It's not true.
The opera house was for a time neglected but never in danger.
The threat to make a parking lot out of the opera house usually is attributed to Mel Stuessy, mayor of Woodstock from 1969 to 1973. During Stuessy's term, there never was a proposal made to the city council to raze the opera house.
Perhaps the destruction of the opera house is laid at Stuessy's feet because at least since the 1950s, ...