Thatcher Opera House (Logan, Utah)

The Thatcher Opera House (Logan, Utah) was built by George W. Thatcher, who had managed the Salt Lake Theater Company. The 800-seat theater opened in September 1890, occupying the top two floors of a new bank building. The theater was used for traveling operas, concerts, plays, vaudeville shows, movies, boxing, and other activities until April 17, 1912, when it was destroyed by a fire which started in an adjacent store.

The Thatcher Brothers Baking Company financed the 1890 construction of the Thatcher Opera house as part of a larger building in Logan, Utah, that also contained a bank and two stores. For more than two decades the 800-seat theater served as one of Logan's cultural centers, showing dozens of operas, plays, concerts, and minstrel shows. The building was destroyed by a fire on April 17, 1912. It stood in the southwest block of Main and Center, where the Wells Fargo building and the Ellen Eccles Theater stand today.