The Met Philadelphia

Fairmount, United States

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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The Metropolitan Opera House in Philadelphia's Fairmount neighborhood, designed by architect William H. McElfatrick, opened in 1908 as a neoclassical opera house built by impresario Oscar Hammerstein I—the ninth such venue he constructed. Originally the home of Hammerstein's Philadelphia Opera Company, it was sold in 1910 to the Metropolitan Opera of New York City, who gave it its current name and operated it through the 1920s. Over the following decades, the building cycled through multiple uses including movie theater, ballroom, sports venue, and mechanic training center before falling into serious disrepair by 1988. A church congregation stabilized the structure beginning in 1995, enabling a comprehensive renovation completed in 2017–2018. Since December 2018, The Met has operated as a pop concert venue managed by Live Nation Philadelphia. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, the building stands as a testament to early twentieth-century opera house design and adaptive reuse.