Before it was destroyed in the 1889 flood, Johnstown, Pennsylvania was a busy steel town with two opera houses of its own. Which city in northern Bohemia (in what's now the Czech Republic) also built a grand opera house in the late 1800s, along with a matching city hall and Old Synagogue?

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Liberec. Liberec's opera house, called the F.X. Salda Theatre, opened in 1883. It was designed by two Austrian architects, Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer, who together designed dozens of opera houses across central Europe. Before the 1889 flood, Johnstown, Pennsylvania was a busy steel town with two opera houses of its own.