The opening night audience sat on walnut stained hoop-backed chairs and faced double-tiered, velour-draped boxes on both sides of the main stage. Thorpe opened his three story brick opera house on the south side of the court house square in 1889, the community boasted one of the most beautifully designed and best-equipped opera houses in Nebraska. The facility was built in the style of most Midwestern opera houses of the day a multi-story building, with business space available below the upstairs performing arts auditorium. Thorpe intended that the facility serve as both a cultural center for the community of David City and a hometown stage for his only daughter Estelle. William Brownsfield Thorpe, David City banker, civic leader, patron of the arts and father of a musically gifted daughter, expressed his diverse interests through the design and construction of the Opera House.
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