Joseph Kroll, a restaurateur, built the Kroll Opera House as an entertainment venue on a site granted by royal cabinet order in 1842. The king suggested the project. The court architect Friedrich Ludwig Persius worked with Carl Ferdinand Langhans and Eduard Knoblauch. Construction began in April 1843, and it opened on February 15, 1844. It had three halls and thirteen boxes, and it held up to 5,000 guests.
A fire in 1851 led to a new building in 1852, later rebuilt as a royal opera house. Oskar Kaufmann reconstructed it in the 1920s for the Volksbühne company, and it reopened in 1924. It closed in 1931. The Reichstag met here from 1933 to 1942.
The infobox gives 1951 for demolition, but the text says it was not fully cleared until 1957.
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