The Beacon Theatre was a cinema on
Tremont Street
Tremont Street is a major thoroughfare in Boston, Massachusetts.
Tremont Street begins at Government Center in Boston's city center as a continuation of Cambridge Street, and forms the eastern edge of Boston Common. Continuing in a roughly so ...
in
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
,
built in 1910 and closed in 1948. Jacob Lourie established it.
Architect
Clarence Blackall
Clarence Howard Blackall (February 3, 1857 – March 5, 1942) was an American architect who is estimated to have designed 300 theatres.
Life and career
Blackall was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1857. He attended college at the University of Ill ...
designed the building, with its 500-seat auditorium
which a contemporary critic described as "showy." It had a staff of 26 in 1910. In 1948 the "refurbished" building became the Beacon Hill Theater.
[CinemaTreasures.org]
Beacon Hill Theatre
1 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108. Retrieved 2012-03-10 The building existed until 1970.
References
External links
* Bostonian Society. Photos:
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Tremont Street, c. 1936 with view of Beacon Theatre
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47-53 Tremont Street, c. 1945 with view of Beacon Theatre
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19-53 Tremont Street, 1947 with view of Beacon Theatre
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Tremont Street, c. 1953 with view of Beacon Hill Theatre
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53 Tremont Street, c. 1958 with view of Beacon Hill Theatre
* Boston Public Library. Photos of Beacon Hill Theatre, Tremont Street, 1970, before demolition; by Boston Redevelopment Authority:
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Front view
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Close-up of architectural design -- third floor balcony*
Close-up of three floors*
Close-up of architectural design -- fourth floor balcony
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Demolished buildings and structures in Boston
1910 establishments in Massachusetts
Cultural history of Boston
1910s in Boston
1940s in Boston
Former cinemas in the United States
Financial District, Boston
Buildings and structures demolished in 1970