 In 1953 it became Alfredo Salmaggi's opera company's home.It also spent time as a bowling alley and a print shop.Subsequent to that, it was gutted internally and converted into a glass factory when the city took it over due to tax foreclosure, which it remained until early in the 20th century when UrbanGlass moved in the late 1980s and BRIC followed suit in 1993.