Hampton opera house is history

Demolition of 1893 building takes less than a day

This drone photo shows the progress made on demolishing the Hampton opera house on Thursday morning

Hampton’s historic IOOF Opera House took months to build in 1892 and ‘93 and it took 10 months after being condemned as unsafe for demolition to begin, but once the crew from Broken Arrow Excavating started to tear it down on Thursday, the building was gone in less than nine hours. Having torn off the wooden addition containing the stairs to the second story on the back of the buil...

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