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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:33:00

Houston's opera house came in early and under budget - a Texas brag in marble and steel. The Brown Theater is the grand hall of the Wortham Theater Center at 501 Texas Avenue, the 437,000-square-foot downtown arts complex whose 90-foot Romanesque arch and vaulted foyer - adorned with thirty tons of Albert Paley steel sculpture - opened in 1987 four months ahead of schedule and 5 million dollars under its roughly 70-million-dollar budget, financed almost entirely by private donations during Houst...