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Images of the Past: The Ghostly Goss Opera House

Friends of the Goss
A Staircase in the Goss Opera House, Watertown, SD

In The Moment … October 26, 2020 Show 928 Hour 2

In the late 1800s Charles Goss opened the Goss Opera House in Watertown. By the 1930s due to the changing times, the building began to decay and lost its luster. Within the last 3 years, the building has been under renovation and people that were working on this have experienced a piano playing and things moving about with no one else in the building. With Halloween a few days away, time for a good ghost story. Brad Johnson is a member of the "Friends of the Goss" board and joins us with more.

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Arts, literature, and music reporting on SDPB is supported by the Northern State University School of Fine Arts. More information available at northern.edu 

 

 

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