Address	Web
52 Public Square, Nelsonville, OH, US, 45764	Email:
Phone: 740-753-1924	Web: http://www.stuartsoperahouse.org/
Fax: 740-753-1982
Back in the mid-nineteenth century, Nelsonville native George Stuart’s showboat called the Arizona traveled on canals throughout Ohio with his minstrel troupe. In 1869, the Arizona sank in the Erie Canal during a rough storm. Stuart then returned to the booming coal mining town of Nelsonville with a dream of building an opera house to serve Nelsonville and Southeastern Ohio.