Chicago Opera House [SEP] architect
Chicago Opera House
The Chicago Opera House, was a theater complex in Chicago, Illinois, designed by the architectural firm of Cobb and Frost. The Chicago Opera House building took the cue provided by the Metropolitan Opera of New York as a mixed-used building: it housed both a theater and unrelated offices, used to subsidize the cost of the theater building. The theater itself was located in the middle of the complex and office structures flanked each side. The entire complex was known as the "Chicago Opera House Block
Ave, it continues to be an active Episcopal parish.
- 7th District Police Station, Chicago, Illinois (1888) Co-architect Franklin P. Burnham
- Kane County Courthouse, Geneva, Illinois (c. 1890–92). Co-architect Franklin P. Burnham.
- World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago (1893) Government Building. Co-architect Burnham.
Selected works As supervising architect.
- Grand Opera House, Dubuque Iowa (1890) Edbrooke's only surviving opera house design.
- San Jose Post