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The Mathias Mitchell Public Square–Main Street Historic District is located in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
2020-The city of Stevens Point opens up an RFP process for the sale and repurposing of The Opera House. 2020-The city of Stevens Point sells the remaining building and lot to local entrepreneur. 2020-The Opera House LLC is established. 2020-Renovation work begins in the fall, starting with a structural analysis of the remaining structure.
Stevens Point is a city in and the county seat of Portage County, Wisconsin, United States. [6] Its population was 25,666 as of the 2020 census. [7] It forms the core of the Stevens Point micropolitan statistical area, which had a population of 70,377 in 2020. [8] The city was incorporated in 1858.
Portage County was created from the Wisconsin Territory in 1836 and organized in 1844. [4] Like the city of Portage, Portage County is named for the portage between the Fox and Wisconsin rivers; Portage County originally included the city of Portage and the portage for which it was named, but boundary changes detached the county from its namesake.
Since its creation, the 71st district has always been the Assembly district for the city of Stevens Point and most of Portage County, except for the 1982 court-ordered redistricting which moved the district to Ozaukee and Sheboygan counties for the 1983–1984 term.
The Rogers Theater is a two-story rectangular Art Moderne movie theater measuring 118 by 48 feet. The façade is three bays wide, with a recessed central entrance bay containing a box office surrounded by two pairs of metal doors. The remainder of the first floor is clad in black structural glass.
[3] [4] The theater occupies a rectangular land lot of 12,077 square feet (1,122.0 m 2), [5] with a frontage of 103 feet (31 m) on Second Avenue and 117.25 feet (36 m) on 12th Street. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] It is composed of two sections: a three-story office wing with a cast-stone facade, facing east on Second Avenue, as well as an auditorium wing with a ...
In 1849, John H. Stevens obtained 160 acres (0.65 km 2) of land on the west side of the falls in exchange for maintaining a ferry at the falls. Hennepin County was established in 1852, and the settlement on the west side of the river was given the name Minneapolis, as coined by Charles Hoag .