In 1903, the Opera House stood as an electric generating plant next to the city jail building but there was no space for a city hall. The city council decided to move the electric plant to a new building (the present-day Wiregrass Museum of Art) and constructed the Dothan Opera House, with a 580-seat auditorium on the first level, and City Hall on the top three levels, as well as housing the Library, Boy Scouts, Chamber of Commerce, utilities department, city treasurer, and other offices. The mural is painted on the stage’s fire curtain and features the Dothan Mayor, Buck Baker, who orchestrated the Opera House’s beginnings, the Boy Scouts, Johnny Mack Brown, and the names of famous musicians and actors who appeared on the Opera House stage.