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Tabor Opera House Leadville Sawatch Range Ceramic Art Tile
$22.00
Built in 1879 by Horace Tabor, the silver baron who made Leadville for a season. Three stories of brick on Harrison Avenue, 880 seats under a painted ceiling, the boards still bearing the marks of Oscar Wilde and Houdini and John Philip Sousa. The town sits at 10,152 feet — the highest incorporated city in North America — with the Sawatch Range and Colorado's two tallest peaks lined up to the west. The silver boom ended; the opera house did not. The room has been kept, not restored — the velvet rubbed thin, the gas-jets converted, the original drop-curtain still hanging.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.