Marcella Sembrich Opera Museum

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Marcella Sembrich Opera Museum
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Location4800 Lake Shore Dr., Bolton Landing, New York
Coordinates 43°32′52″N73°39′40″W / 43.54778°N 73.66111°W / 43.54778; -73.66111
Area4.8 acres (1.9 ha)
Built1922
ArchitectMannix, Arthur
Architectural styleMission/Spanish Revival
NRHP reference No. 02000799 [1]
Added to NRHPJuly 19, 2002

Marcella Sembrich Opera Museum, also known as The Sembrich and the Marcella Sembrich Memorial Studio, is a historic teaching studio located at Bolton Landing, Warren County, New York. It was built in 1922-24 as a teaching studio for New York Metropolitan Opera diva Marcella Sembrich (1858-1935). The studio building is a one-story, rectangular, stucco walled wood-frame building with a hipped roof and glassed in porches in the Spanish Revival style. Additional contributing features on the property are a bathhouse, curator's cottage, a lookout, stone retaining walls along the shoreline, stone walls, three piers flanking the entrance, wrought iron fencing and entrance gate, and landscape features. The property was converted to a museum shortly after the death of Marcella Sembrich in 1935. [2]

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The Sembrich hosts summer concerts, lectures, films and performances.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Anita Richards; Phillip Trembley & L. Garofalini (January 2001). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Marcella Sembrich Opera Museum". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . Retrieved 2010-09-18.See also: "Accompanying 11 photos".