Market Hall, St. Paul, MN

Scott, a citation in the Saint Paul History and Area Business Index describes Market Hall as being on 7th Street West, at the northeast corner of Saint Peter Street. The index also shows several articles about the Market Hall, at least one of which containing an illustration. However, the articles themselves are on microfilm, so any further investigation would require a $15 service fee as explained in the attached document regarding the library's policy on service and delivery fees. 

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Madison, WI

The (Madison) Wisconsin State Journal 1885: January 27 noted that the venue was the M.E. Church and the other reviews referred to it as the Methodist Church. Checking the city directory for 1884 I found listed the First Methodist Episcopal Church at the northwest corner of Wisconsin Ave. and E Dayton. This seems to fit the bill for the Twain Cable shows on January 21 and 27 of 1885.

Opera House, Janesville, WI

Known as the Myers Opera House. 118 E. Milwaukee Street, Janesville, WI 53545 

The Myers Theater was built in 1870 as the Myers Opera House. It started showing movies around 1929. In 1977 the Myers Theater was demolished and replaced with a bank. The history page for this theater gives Milwaukee Avenue and South Parker Drive as its location. Google Maps returns East Milwaukee Street and South Parker Drive.  http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/14142 

January 20, 1885

Opera House, Keokuk, IA

The Grand Theatre was designed by Merle F. Baker and was constructed on the foundation of the Keokuk Opera House (Circa 1880) which burned in 1923. It was patterned after theaters in Chicago and was praised as one of the finest theaters in the country at the time.
http://www.keokukiowatourism.org/theatre.htm 

It Happened In Keokuk  Friday, December 7, 1923  

KEOKUK'S 43 YEAR OLD OPERA HOUSE IS GUTTED IN EARLY MORNING BLAZE. 

Opera House, Hannibal, Mo

I have no direct information that the Opera House was the location of the Twain-Cable reading of January 13, 1885, but I found this listing in the Hannibal City Directory 1885-86.  Hannibal Opera House Co., cor of 5th and Center, J.B. Price, manager, office at F. & M. bank.

 Image:  Hannibal, Missouri: Bluff City Memories  By Steve Chou

Mercantile Library Hall, St. Louis, MO

The St. Louis Mercantile Library, founded in 1846 in St. Louis, Missouri, was originally established as a subscription library, and is the oldest extant library west of the Mississippi River. Since 1998 the library has been housed at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. It has 600 feet (180 m) of papers, ledgers, and printed materials currently in 26 departmental or other record groups In 1986 the library received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities because of the collection's cultural importance.

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