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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:34:00

San Antonio's golden jewel spent a quarter-century dark before a million-dollar gift relit it. The Charline McCombs Empire Theatre at 226 North St. Mary's Street opened on 14 December 1914 inside the eight-story Brady Building, built by developer Thomas Brady on a site associated with the arts since Turner Hall in 1879. St. Louis architects Mauran, Russell and Crowe designed it as a European-style palazzo opera house in Renaissance Revival dress - electric fans, opera boxes at two levels, a copp...