He diversified into other business interestes, including banks, manufacturing, railroads, and timber, mining, and ranching properties.

Harriet died in 1884; in 1885, Ammi Wright married Anna Case, who had worked as the family seamstress, and moved full-time to Alma.

Ammi Willard Wright died in 1912, leaving an estate worth approximately ten million dollars at the time of his death.

[3] The opera house, initially called "Barton's Hall," occupied the two upper floors of the building.

It was heavily used for a decade, then fell into disuse, then was remodeled and reopened by Wright's son-in-law, Henry Lancashire, in 1894.

[3] The entire block was renovated in 1897, and in 1899 an addition known as the Lancashire Building was constructed directly abutting (and connected with) the Opera House.

[3] The Opera House Block is a three-story Italianate commercial building constructed of cream-colored brick.

The boiler house is a one-story brick building with bricked-in windows, facing State Street.