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The cost of the building was 27,401 dollars.
In the year of 1828 it was occupied by the first I. town hall in which the jail was. To use it as a hospital and jail at the same time for women and men.
In the actuality the jail has moved to another place. The government had a Project to made it a house of culture.
Ubicated in the center of the state, the theater Fernando Calderón is one of the most known monuments in Zacatecas (Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity, UNESCO, 1993). The Theater has been during the changes that the society and the politics had. In spite of triumphs and problems a one hundred eighty years later this monument has been part of the city and their people.
Just a few buildings are part of the memory in zacatecanos just like the theater Calderon. The theater has convert in a place of meetings between the zacatecanos, they usually gather all together in the stairs of the principal entrance to contemplate the city for a few minutes or just because they want to have meetings.
This place is part of Zacatecas and of their habitants, which is one of the most important places in Zacatecas