Three firesSourced
The theater burned three times.
Each fire started elsewhere.
Atlantic City's Academy of Music was destroyed by fire in 1892, 1898, and 1902. Rebuilt each time, it was repeatedly caught by fires that began outside the theater.
A rebuilt theater
kept meeting its neighbors' fires.
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