PHOTOS: Looking back at Gebhart's Opera House, later known as Mayfair Theatre
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An ornate dome topped the elegant Gebhart's Opera House when it opened to the public March 12, 1877. In 1906 it was expanded, renamed the Lyric (the era this photograph was taken in), and became a vaudeville house. DAYTON METRO LIBRARY / LUTZENBERGER PICTURE COLLECTION