The first stone at the base theater was founded in June 1897. Q. Gorgolewski himself directed and earthworks, and construction and sporyadzhuvalnymy works, bringing them the best of Lviv and foreign companies. The main load was the famous engineer company VI Lewinski. For construction used local materials. Manufactured abroad: forms parts of marble - in Vienna, a special canvas for painting the lobby - in Belgium. Installation of electric lighting held Austrian company Siemens, mechanization of the scene - Polish company to repair cars (m.Sanok). Construction lasted almost three years. It was funded by the city council and citizens of the city environs, as well as on their donations. Construction cost was 2.4 million Austrian crowns. Theatre built in the classical tradition, using forms and details of Renaissance and baroque architecture, or the so-called pseudo Vienna. Theatre, lavishly decorated both outside and inside, was the centerfold of the achievements of sculpture and painting in Western Europe late nineteenth century.