Pike's Opera House, later renamed the Grand Opera House, was a theatre in New York City on the northwest corner of 8th Avenue and 23rd Street, in Chelsea, Manhattan. It was constructed in 1868 on a grand scale, for distiller and entrepreneur Samuel N. Pike (1822 - Dec.7, 1872) of Cincinnati at a cost of a million dollars and survived until 1960 as an RKO movie theater. Public housing was built in its place as part of an urban renewal project.
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