Built in 1889 by Jamestown Village and Silvercreek Township after Jamestown recovered from the 1884 cyclone and grew as a thriving community served by the Detroit Toledo & Ironton Railroad, the Opera House of Late Victorian Architecture provided a centralized meeting place on lot No. 12 at the corner of N. Limestone and E. Xenia Streets. John W. McLean was the architect, and Matthew Moorman & Sons won the contract with a low bid of $11,454.00. Work began on June 12, 1889, and was completed in December. The building was the center of community activities until the Silvercreek Centralized School opened in 1937. Its upstairs auditorium hosted school functions, church services, music concerts, education seminars, sound and silent movies with piano accompaniment by area residents, and traveling medicine shows. At various times, the downstairs housed government offices, a shoe factory, a gun shop, a barbershop, a post office, a police station, a jail, a fire department, and a library. Silvercreek Township became the building's sole owner in January 2001.