[1] Mason Opera house was designed by Benjamin Howard Marshall in association with John B. Parkinson and opened on June 8, 1903.

A sample of the theater's early performances include: the Richard J. Jose Minstrels on August 25, 1903, the comic opera The Free Lance by John Philip Sousa in March 1907, a four-night engagement with Sara Bernhardt in 1911, the Broadway musical The Pink Lady in March 2012, and the De Koven Opera Company production of Robin Hood and seven Stratford-upon-Avon Players productions in March 2014.

In the 1930s, the theater was the site of numerous Federal Theatre Project productions.

[1][2][3] Mason Opera House was about four stories tall and contained six buttresses that provided structural support.

The upper balcony could only be accessed from the rear of the building and wasn't used in the theater's final decades.