For a century the store served to inspire shoppers to enjoy spending their money.īusiness came first, but Marks and Rothenberg brought in the most renowned theatre design company in the United States to plan their opera house. The rows of floors awed the observer with a sense of wealth, prosperity, and well-being. One reporter wrote that the Marks-Rothenberg store, the exterior of which was designed in the Romanesque Revival style, reminded him of a theatre when he stood in the atrium’s center and looked up. Yeomen prided themselves on buying as little as possible from stores sharecroppers had almost no cash to spend. The majority of the population lived as yeoman farmers or sharecroppers. The brothers gambled big because shopping had never been a pleasurable experience for most Mississippians. The architect created a store to serve as a monument to the “goddess of commerce.” Torgenson, who was then living in Meridian, to design a new store and an elegant opera house to be located a few blocks west of the original store. In 1889 they hired a Swedish immigrant architect, G. Prospering, they decided to operate an opera house for fun and profit, serving the thousands of traveling salesmen and other rail passengers spending the night in town. Marks and Levi Rothenberg opened a department store on Front Street adjacent to the railroad tracks. The Grand Opera House was the work of German-Jewish immigrants who settled in the city in the late 1800s when the railroads and the booming timber industry made Meridian a major commercial distribution center. This long-closed opera house, with its High Victorian architectural style, re-opened in September 2006.
Between 18 the Grand Opera House in Meridian, Mississippi, provided east Mississippi and west Alabama with varied entertainment, ranging from operas in a variety of languages to theatrical entertainment and minstrel shows.
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