The Holly Theatre

Georgia · United States · Theatre

Fifty years abandoned, now restored. Before opening and after closing, white glowing figures pass the etched glass windows.

This theatre at Dahlonega, Georgia has been standing for close to a century, and it spent about fifty years of that abandoned before being restored.

The reports come from before opening and after closing, when there is almost nobody in the building.

What people see are figures, white and glowing, passing behind the etched glass windows.

Etched glass is the detail that makes this both memorable and difficult. It diffuses whatever is behind it into a soft, shapeless glow, which is precisely what turns a passing car, a street lamp or a colleague into a figure. It is also, in a building of this age, exactly the kind of glass that has been there since the beginning.

Dahlonega was the site of America's first major gold rush in 1828, two decades before California.

The theatre is restored and putting on shows.

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Where is The Holly Theatre located?

The Holly Theatre is in Georgia, United States.

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