NY Opera House Gets Rehab

Originally built in 1855 as Hudson, N.Y.’s City Hall, the opera house was abandoned in 1962, according to Hudson’s Register Star.

Some parts of the building reopened in the 1990s but the building has remained largely in disrepair since then. Money for the rehab has come mostly from a series of grants, and “stocked up for a large restoration project,” Hudson Opera House co-Director Tambra Dillion told the paper. “The decision was made to consolidate the project, [to] do it in one go.”

Work is expected to be completed in spring 2017, including restoring the performance hall, mezzanine, stage, five dressing rooms, lighting and sound booth, green room and restrooms, according to the Daily Freeman.