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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:04:00

A saloonkeeper built Pilsen a copy of the Prague opera house in 1892, and it took 120 years and two restaurateurs to give it back to the neighborhood. Thalia Hall at 1807 South Allport Street was commissioned by Bohemian immigrant John Dusek and designed by Frederick Faber and William Pagels in Romanesque Revival style, its interior theater modeled on Prague's Old Opera House for the Czech community that gave Pilsen its name. The building was conceived as a self-supporting cultural machine - gr...