Historic Eureka Opera House

Looking for a unique place to hold your next meeting, convention or retreat? Eureka, Nevada's Opera House offers historic elegance with full convention and meeting services.

Built in 1880 and restored in 1993, the Eureka Opera House offers a unique experience for meeting and convention goers. Enjoy full convention and meeting services while relaxing in a small-town atmosphere. The modern meetings facilities and excellent service will make special events and conferences a pleasurable experience for participants.

Convention and Meeting Facilities

While the Eureka Opera House is more than 120 years old, its facilities for conventions and meeting are brand new with all of today's conveniences. The restored facility makes the Eureka Opera House perfect for business and association meetings, conventions, retreats, theater performances, and other special events.

Grand Hall Auditorium
The historic elegance of the Eureka Opera House, including chandelier, curtain, wood floors and horseshoe balcony, have been preserved as a unique community amenity. The Grand Hall Auditorium accommodates 300 people theater-style or 150 people seated at banquet tables. The balcony -- one of only three horseshoe-shaped balconies in Nevada -- offers permanent seating for 64 people. The auditorium and balcony provide excellent viewing of the large full performance stage, making the Grand Hall ideal for large banquets, conventions, theater and other events.

Diamond and Prospect Meeting Rooms
The meeting rooms accommodate 50 people seated theater style or 48 people seated at banquet tables. The meeting rooms also serve as the gallery for the Opera House's permanent fine arts collection or traveling exhibits. These rooms are an excellent setting for formal and casual meetings, banquets and seminars.

Other Services
The Eureka Opera House offers meeting and event planning, catering services, and overhead, slide and video projectors. Audio systems are available in the Grand Hall and meeting rooms.

Eureka Opera House History
That elegance of the Opera House was appreciated in the mining town of Eureka in the 1880s and early 1900s. Today, it is appreciated for its rich history as a social center. In the 1880s, plays, masquerade balls, dances, operas, concerts, and other social events were held in the Opera House. With the introduction of movies in 1915, the Opera House was renamed the Eureka Theater. First silent movies, then "talkies" were shown. Movies were last shown at the Opera House in the late 1950s. The official grand opening of the Eureka Opera House was held in January 1881, with a showing of the drama, "Forget Me Not."