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On this site Commodore John Rodgers built an elegant house in 1831. In it on April 14, 1865 an attempt was made to assassinate W.H. Seward, Secretary of State, by one of the conspirators who murdered Abraham Lincoln the same night. The Hon. James G. Blaine afterward bought the house and died here. The Lafayette Square Opera House was erected of steel skeleton construction, stone, terra-cotta, mackite and brick by U.H. Painter, C.E., to prove that an opera house can be made safe at all times from fire and panic. It was six months in building and was opened for business on September 30, 1895.
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