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The Grand Opera House, often called The Grand and also known as Academy of Music, is a historic opera house located in Macon, Georgia.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it is currently operated as a performing arts center of Mercer University.Originally known as the Academy of Music, the Grand was built in 1883 and 1884 with the largest stage in the southeastern United States, outstanding lines-of sight and acoustics (both still notable today), and seats for 2,418, nearly a fifth of Macon's population at the time.

(It was listed on the National Register in 1970.) The Opera House was renovated and reopened as a live theater in 1969.(The second balcony, or peanut gallery, remained closed to the public and was dedicated to lighting equipment at this time, reducing the maximum seating to its current number of 1,095).

However, by the 1960s, the Grand had ceased showing movies and plans were made to replace it with a parking lot.Those plans were blocked in 1967 by the Macon Arts Council, a group formed to save and restore the Grand.

Live horses and chariots appeared in an 1908 production of Ben-Hur.

The facade, a building located on Mulberry Street, was renovated in 1902, and the present seven-story office building facade opened in 1905.Since that time, the stage has seen numerous historic uses.

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