Chickering Hall (1901–1912) was an auditorium in Boston, Massachusetts, located on Huntington Avenue in the Back Bay.[1] It stood adjacent to Horticultural Hall. Tenants included the Emerson College of Oratory[2] and D.M. Shooshan's "Ladies' and Gents' Cafe."[3] In 1912 it became the St. James Theatre, and later the Uptown Theatre. The building existed until 1963, when it was demolished.[4]
Performances
edit- Opening concert, with Antoinette Szumowska, Pol Plançon, Kneisel Quartet[5][6]
- Lucy Gates, soprano[7]
- Florizel, boy violinist[8]
- Ossip Gabrilowitsch, pianist[9]
- The Merchant of Venice, with Ben Greet English Co.[10]
- W. B. Yeats plays, with Margaret Wycherly[11]
- Beatrice Herford[12]
Images
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Chickering Hall postcard -
Floorplan -
Inside Chickering Hall c. 1903 -
1908 map of Boston including Chickering Hall -
Ad in the Boston Globe, Feb. 16, 1902 -
Advertisement, 1904
See also
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edit- ^ Chickering Hall, no.239 Huntington Ave. Wilson's annual reference book of Greater Boston ..., [Boston?], 1904, OL 14048417M
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Advertisement in Atlantic Monthly, June 1910
- ^ Wilson's annual reference book of Greater Boston ..., [Boston?], 1904, OL 14048417M
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Bostonian Society. Photograph of Uptown Theater Archived September 19, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, 239 Huntington Street. View of the Prudential Center Tower, ca. 1962-1963. "Demolition (replaced by Christian Science Center). Originally the Chickering Hall (built 1900-1901), later Saint James Theater."
- ^ "Chickering Hall opening," Boston Globe, January 27, 1901; "Brilliant audience: auspicious opening of new Chickering Hall," Boston Globe, Feb. 9, 1901
- ^ The commemoration of the founding of the house of Chickering & Sons upon the eightieth anniversary of the event, 1823-1903. Boston: Chickering & Sons, 1904
- ^ Boston Globe, Feb. 16, 1902
- ^ Boston Globe, Feb. 16, 1902
- ^ Boston Globe, March 15, 1903
- ^ Boston Globe, Feb. 6, 1904
- ^ Boston Globe, Nov. 26, 1904
- ^ Boston Evening Transcript, April 14, 1910
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chickering Hall, Boston (1901).
- Historic New England owns materials related to Chickering Hall
- Boston Public Library. Photo of Chickering Hall, Huntington Ave., 1911
- Bostonian Society.
- Photograph of street-level view south of Symphony Hall, located at 240 Huntington Avenue, and Horticultural and Chickering Halls, located at 239 Huntington Avenue. Trolley bus tracks run in front of buildings.
- CinemaTreasures.org. Uptown Theatre, 239 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 (successor to the St. James)
