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The opera-house test is run first because this section hangs on it, and its result is negative at full size. No opera house at North Liberty appears in the county histories of 1880 or 1907, in the Sanborn surveys of 1909, 1917 and 1929 (whose building-by-building account of the commercial block the National Register nomination mines without naming any hall of entertainment), in the theatre directories and databases consulted, or in any local source read. Towns of 400 to 1,900 people in this county that did sustain an opera-house floor — over a store, in a town hall — left traces in exactly those records; North Liberty left none. The town hall the Sanborn sheets do show (the small frame building southeast of the Worster Building block in 1909, combining town hall, lock-up and fire department) was a government shed, not a hall, and no performance use of it was documented. Answer, printed as the test requires: this town never had an opera house that the record knows.