Chickering Hall (1901–1912) was an auditorium 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 ...
,
, located on
Huntington Avenue
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in the
Back Bay
Back Bay is an officially recognized neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, built on reclaimed land in the Charles River basin. Construction began in 1859, as the demand for luxury housing exceeded the availability in the city at the time, and t ...
. It stood adjacent to
Horticultural Hall. Tenants included the
Emerson College of Oratory and D.M. Shooshan's "Ladies' and Gents' Cafe." In 1912 it became the
St. James Theatre, and later the Uptown Theatre. The building existed until 1963, when it was demolished.
Performances
* Opening concert, with
Antoinette Szumowska,
Pol Plançon
Pol Henri Plançon (; 12 June 1851 – 11 August 1914) was a distinguished French operatic bass (''basse chantante''). He was one of the most acclaimed singers active during the 1880s, 1890s and early 20th century—a period often referred to as ...
,
Kneisel Quartet
The Kneisel Quartet was a string quartet founded in 1885 by violinist Franz Kneisel, then concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It continued to perform until 1917, and was generally considered the leading string quartet of its time in t ...
* Lucy Gates, soprano
*
Florizel
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, boy violinist
*
Ossip Gabrilowitsch
Ossip Salomonovich Gabrilowitsch (Осип Сoломонович Габрилович, ''Osip Solomonovich Gabrilovich''; he used the German transliteration ''Gabrilowitsch'' in the West) (14 September 1936) was a Russian-born American pianist, ...
, pianist
* ''
The Merchant of Venice
''The Merchant of Venice'' is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. A merchant in Venice named Antonio defaults on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock.
Although classified as ...
'', with
Ben Greet
Sir Philip Barling Greet (24 September 1857 – 17 May 1936), known professionally as Ben Greet, was a Shakespearean actor, director, impresario and actor-manager.
Early life
The younger son of Captain William Greet RN and his wife, Sarah Ba ...
English Co.
*
W. B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish liter ...
plays, with
Margaret Wycherly
Margaret De Wolfe Wycherly (born Margaret De Wolfe, 26 October 1881 – 6 June 1956) was an English stage and film actress. She spent many years in the United States and is best remembered for her Broadway roles and Hollywood character parts. On ...
*
Beatrice Herford
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[Boston Evening Transcript, April 14, 1910]
Images
File:ChickeringHall ca1900s Boston MA postcard.png, Chickering Hall postcard
File:1904 ChickeringHall Boston.png, Floorplan
File:ChickeringHall ca1903 HuntingtonAve Boston.png, Inside Chickering Hall c. 1903
File:1908 ChickeringHall map Boston byBromley.png, 1908 map of Boston including Chickering Hall
File:1902 ChickeringHall BostonGlobe Feb16.png, Ad in the ''Boston Globe
''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Glob ...
'', Feb. 16, 1902
Image:1904 Yeats ChickeringHall BostonGlobe Nov26.png, Advertisement, 1904
See also
*
Chickering Hall, Boston (1883)
*
Chickering and Sons
Chickering & Sons was an American piano manufacturer located in Boston, Massachusetts. The company was founded in 1823 by Jonas Chickering and James Stewart, but the partnership dissolved four years later. By 1830 Jonas Chickering became partners ...
References
External links
Historic New Englandowns materials related to Chickering Hall
* Boston Public Library
Photo of Chickering Hall Huntington Ave., 1911
* Bostonian Society.
*
Photograph of street-level viewsouth 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)
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Music venues completed in 1901
Demolished buildings and structures in Boston
Event venues established in 1901
Cultural history of Boston
20th century in Boston
Back Bay, Boston
Buildings and structures demolished in 1963