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According to the trade magazine ''Boxoffice'':
:''The second, or "peanut" gallery was set aside for Negroes, and a section of 15 seats was reserved for the demimondaine of the town (them's the naughty gals, kids).''<ref>"Compiling State Theatre History." ''Boxoffice'', July 6, 1946.</ref>
According to an article by Nathan Woolsey ("Pensacola History Illustrated, Vol. 6, No. 1, Summer 2002, p.17-18,"Benjamin Overman"), the Opera House, as well as many other buildings in Pensacola in that era, were designed by architect Charles Henry Overman (1849-1890), youngest son of Benjamin Franklin Overman (1797-1888).
==Guest Performers==
