Chickering Hall (1875 - 1893) was a concert and music hall in Manhattan, New York City, New York, located on Fifth Avenue.[1]
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| Address | 437 Fifth Avenue at 18th Street New York City  United States |
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| Location | Manhattan |
| Coordinates | 40°44′20″N 73°59′31″W / 40.73889°N 73.99194°W |
| Owner | Chickering & Sons |
| Capacity | 1,450 |
| Construction | |
| Built | 1870s |
| Opened | 15 September 1875 |
| Closed | 1893 |
| Demolished | 1901 |
| Construction cost | $175,000 (Inflation: 4855455) |
| Architect | George B. Post |
History
editChickering Hall, commissioned by Chickering & Sons, was situated at the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and 18th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan.[2] It was designed by the American architect George B. Post and F.C. Murray.[3] Opening on November 15, 1875, it housed a music store, piano warehouse, and concert hall.[2] Above the ground-level salesroom, its 1,450-seat auditorium, located on the second and third floors, hosted concerts, lectures, and conferences.[4]
The concert hall was managed by Edward H. Colell in 1891 and still under the ownership of Chickering and Sons.[5] In 1893, the building was entirely repurposed into a retail space for John Wanamaker's department store, taking over city piano sales.[2]
The original Chickering Hall building in New York City was sold and demolished in the early 1900s. Chickering & Sons merged with the American Piano Company who later established a new building in the borough of Manhattan on 57th Street under the same name in 1924.[6]
Events & Performances
edit- 5th International Congress of Ophthalmology, September 12-14, 1876[7]
- Robert G. Ingersoll lecture, February 3, 1878[8]
- Chamber music of New York Philharmonic with Ema Pukšec, Sebastian Bach Mills, Ferdinand Quentin Dulcken, and more, April 1, 1879[9]
- 15th Annual Commencement of the New York College of Dentistry, February 23, 1881[10]
- Oscar Wilde, English Renaissance lecture, January 9, 1882[11]
- Kneisel Quartet, Pol Plançon, Antoinette Szumowska, and more, February 8, 1898[12]
- Frederic Farrar lecture, October 29, 1885[13]
Gallery
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Chickering Hall, northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and 18th Street, New York City -
Exterior view of Chickering Hall, 1892
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Appleton's General Guide to the United States and Canada. (1891). United Kingdom: Black.
- ^ a b c "Chickering Hall à New York, from "Moniteur des Architectes". metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2024-09-14.
- ^ Stokes, I. N. P. (1915). The iconography of Manhattan Island. United States: Dodd.
- ^ Ingersoll, E. (1891). A Week in New York. United States: Rand, Mc Nally & Company.
- ^ New York Amusement Gazette. (1891). United States: F. T. Low..
- ^ Poor's...1925. (1925). United States: Poor's Publishing Company.
- ^ Report of the Fifth International Ophthalmological Congress: Held in New York, Sept. 1876.... (1877). United States: D. Appleton & Company.
- ^ Ingersoll, R. G. (1878). "Hell": Lecture [at] Chickering Hall, New York, February 3d, 1878. United States: E. McCormack.
- ^ Concert program, 1 Apr 1879, Program ID 10110, New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives. https://archives.nyphil.org/index.php/artifact/f5e83c34-26a9-4027-923b-51cef82b0bb3-0.1
- ^ The Dental Cosmos. (1881). United States: S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Company.
- ^ Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections Volume I. (1979). United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan UK.
- ^ Bradley, W., Plançon, P. (1898). Program: Opening Concert Friday Evening, February 8th. United States: Chickering & Sons.
- ^ Farrar, F. W. (1866). Temperance Address, Delivered at Chickering Hall, New York, October 29, 1885. United States: John B. Alden.