Community Comes Together To Restore Original Home Of National Negro Opera Company

By Patrick Damp, CBS Pittsburgh

May 25, 2022

On Tuesday in Lincoln-Lemington, a groundbreaking took place at the National Opera Company House.

The city joined with the community to restore and preserve the original home of the National Negro Opera Company which became the first permanent Black opera company in the country when it was founded in 1941.

It was owned by William "Woogie" Harris, one of Pittsburgh's first Black millionaires, who bought it in 1930.

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